Paul Celan

Author · 25 books

Poet, translator, essayist, and lecturer, influenced by French Surrealism and Symbolism. Celan was born in Cernăuţi, at the time Romania, now Ukraine, he lived in France, and wrote in German. His parents were killed in the Holocaust; the author himself escaped death by working in a Nazi labor camp. "Death is a Master from Germany", Celan's most quoted words, translated into English in different ways, are from the poem 'Todesfuge' (Death Fugue). Celan's body was found in the Seine river in late April 1970, he had committed suicide.

Books

A Morte É Uma Flor

Breathturn

Breathturn into Timestead

Collected Prose

Corona

Di soglia in soglia

Die Gedichte.

Die Todesfuge

Glottal Stop

Last Poems

Lightduress

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech

Microliths They Are, Little Stones

Mohn und Gedächtnis

Paul Celan

Paul Celan

Paul Celan and Nellie Sachs

Poems of Paul Celan

Romanian Poems

Selected Poems

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Sprachgitter

The Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Celan, Paul, Felstiner, John (2002) Paperback

Threadsuns

Tou kanenos to rodo

Books

A Morte É Uma Flor

Breathturn

Breathturn into Timestead

Collected Prose

Corona

Di soglia in soglia

Die Gedichte.

Die Todesfuge

Glottal Stop

Last Poems

Lightduress

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech

Microliths They Are, Little Stones

Mohn und Gedächtnis

Paul Celan

Paul Celan

Paul Celan and Nellie Sachs

Poems of Paul Celan

Romanian Poems

Selected Poems

Sort mælk

Sprachgitter

The Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Celan, Paul, Felstiner, John (2002) Paperback

Threadsuns

Tou kanenos to rodo