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Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan - Roots and Ramifications of the "Meridian" Speech (Hardcover)
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Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan - Roots and Ramifications of the "Meridian" Speech (Hardcover)
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Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan: Roots
and Ramifications of the "Meridian" Speech addresses a central
problem in the work of a poet who holds a unique position in the
intellectual history of the twentieth century. On the one hand, he
was perhaps the last great figure of the Western poetic tradition,
one who took up the dialogue with its classics and who responded to
the questions of his day from a "global" concern, if often
cryptically. And on the other hand, Paul Celan was a witness to and
interim survivor of the Holocaust. These two identities raise
questions that were evidently present for Celan in the very act of
poetry. This study takes the form of a commentary on Celan's most
important statement of his poetics and beliefs, "The Meridian,"
which is an extraordinarily condensed text, packed with allusions
and multiple meanings. It reflects his early work and anticipates
later developments, so that the discussion of "The Meridian"
becomes a consideration of his oeuvre as a whole. The commentary is
an act of listening-an attempt to hear what these words meant to
the poet, to see the landscapes from which they come and the
reality they are trying to project; and in the light of this, to
arrive at a clear picture of the relation between Celan's
Jewishness and his vocation as a Western writer.
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