Author: Paul Celan Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Classic, Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780856462658 9780892552764 0856462659 |
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"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped and stretched to crack and expose its crust of dead rhetoric Michael Hamburger has earned our gratitude for rendering these poems into a reasonably inventive English "Robert Pinsky, THE NEW REPUBLIC.
Parallel German text and English translation.
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