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Celan Studies (Paperback)
Peter Szondi; Translated by Susan Bernofsky, Harvey Mendelsohn; Foreword by Jean Bollack
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R606
R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
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Peter Szondi's "Celan Studies" marked the beginning of critical
work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second
half of the twentieth century.
The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan
poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of
Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a
poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only
promises to do so. "Reading 'Engfuhrung'" follows the movement of
poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason.
"Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of Rosa
Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when
the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the
historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition.
The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more
projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his
death in 1971.
The Art of Reading is the first-long overdue-collection of essays
by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be
published in English. As the scope of the collection demonstrates,
Bollack felt at home thinking in depth about two things that seem
starkly different to most other thinkers. We see on the one hand
the classics of Greek poetry and philosophy, including the
relatively obscure but in his hands illuminating re-readings of
Greek philosophy by the doxographers. Then, on the other hand,
there is modern, including contemporary, poetry. The author of
monumental commentaries on the Oedipus Tyrannos of Sophocles and on
the fragments of Empedocles, Bollack cultivated in himself and in a
generation of students (academics and others) a way to read both
sets of texts closely that is as uncompromising and demanding of
the interpreter as it is of the reader of the interpretation. The
results, which this wide-ranging but compact collection brings to
mind, are designed to get beyond flat and cliched approaches to
familiar works and to awaken the reader anew to the aesthetics, the
complexity, and the intelligence that careful reconstruction of the
text can bring to light.
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Celan Studies (Hardcover)
Peter Szondi; Translated by Susan Bernofsky, Harvey Mendelsohn; Foreword by Jean Bollack
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R2,223
Discovery Miles 22 230
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Peter Szondi's "Celan Studies" marked the beginning of critical
work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second
half of the twentieth century.
The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan
poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of
Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a
poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only
promises to do so. "Reading 'Engfuhrung'" follows the movement of
poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason.
"Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of Rosa
Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when
the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the
historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition.
The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more
projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his
death in 1971.
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