The Meridian : Final Version-Drafts-Materials Paperback / softback
by Paul Celan
Edited by Bernhard Boeschenstein, Heino Schmull
Part of the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Buchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the most important poetological statement of the second half of the twentieth century.
Much more than a personal statement or occasional piece, it is a meditation on the state of poetry and art in general and a rigorous attempt to account for what poetry is, can, and must be after the Holocaust.
This definitive historico-critical edition, available for the first time in English, presents not only the first drafts, but also a vast array of notes and preparatory work and a brief essay on Osip Mandelstam, all of which work to expand the field of reference of Celan's manifesto and reveal its true scope.
Rich commentaries clarify Celan's notes to authors as diverse as Leibniz, Scheler, Kafka, Hofmannsthal, Husserl, Pascal, Valery, Heidegger, and others. Listen to an interview about Celan's Meridian with translator Pierre Joris on the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by poet and professor Leonard Schwartz at writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.php#253.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:16/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804739528
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:16/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804739528
