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Correspondence (The German List) - Paperback By Celan, Paul - VERY GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780857426420
- Book Title
- Correspondence
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Women Authors, European / German, European / General, Literary
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark the mes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most important novelists, poets and playwrights. It seems only appropriate that these two contemporaries and masters of language were at one time lovers, and they shared a lengthy, artful and passionate correspondence. Collected here for the first time in English are their letters written between 1948 and 1961. Their correspondence forms a moving testimony of the discourse of love in the age after Auschwitz, with all the symptomatic disturbances and crises caused by their conflicting backgrounds and their hard-to-reconcile designs for living--as a woman, as a man, as writers. In addition to the almost 200 letters, the volume includes an important exchange between Bachmann and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan in 1951, as well as the letters between Paul Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch, who was Bachmann's lover for four years. 'Wieland Hoban has worked with accuracy and determination to capture the nuances of style and register, which include oblique awkwardness (Celan) and self-assuredness (Bachmann), alongside infinite courage and astounding strength (Celan-Lestrange). The translation reads well, with just a slight edge of the original diction remaining to remind readers that we are witnessing a different time and place, and way of perceiving the world. . . . This is an important addition tot he work in translation of two major post-war writers.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'This book is highly recommended. You cannot possibly be disappointed by it, especially if you are familiar with these writers' literary output, each of which left the world a completely original, masterful, and highly influential body of work. The letters move from youthful heartbreak and poetical exuberance to the destructive later exchanges between two people who cannot trust one another although they are, until the end, drawn to each other. It's not a book you read and shelve. It's a book to read and reread, a book to treasure.' -- Shigekuni. Read the lengthy, detailed and enligtening review of the book here. ' Correspondence, rendered perfectly in English by Wieland Hoban, traces [Celan and Bachmann's] letters, telegrams, and book inscriptions to one another, color-coded and augmented by hundreds of footnotes. Like other volumes from Seagull Books, it's physically gorgeous, with a pleasingly compact trim size. Reading Correspondence feels like an indulgence. It also feels disorienting. The world of the letters and the world of their authors' real lives are askew in a sometimes jarring way, so that the emotional content of the letters reads almost as fiction.' -- Aaron Belz, Books & Culture
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Seagull Books
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0857426427
ISBN-13
9780857426420
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Book Title
Correspondence
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, European / German, European / General, Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
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Pt2605.E4
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Wieland Hoban has worked with accuracy and determination to capture the nuances of style and register, which include oblique awkwardness (Celan) and self-assuredness (Bachmann), alongside infinite courage and astounding strength (Celan-Lestrange). The translation reads well, with just a slight edge of the original diction remaining to remind readers that we are witnessing a different time and place, and way of perceiving the world. . . . This is an important addition tot he work in translation of two major post-war writers., Correspondence, rendered perfectly in English by Wieland Hoban, traces [Celan and Bachmann's] letters, telegrams, and book inscriptions to one another, color-coded and augmented by hundreds of footnotes. Like other volumes from Seagull Books, it's physically gorgeous, with a pleasingly compact trim size. Reading Correspondence feels like an indulgence. It also feels disorienting. The world of the letters and the world of their authors' real lives are askew in a sometimes jarring way, so that the emotional content of the letters reads almost as fiction., Bachmann's letters to Celan are exercises in precision, full of revisions, reversals, qualifications, bringing not just language but her philosophy of language to life., A magnificent, and troubled, meeting of minds that would last a lifetime. . . . In almost 200 letters, telegrams, postcards, unsent drafts, poems as love-letters, they tussle with the possibilities and limitations of communication through the written word. Silence and personal darkness have their place. The compromises exacted by life on art, the power and powerlessness of language, fear of the written word, and belief in dialogue through poetry are subjects broached. . . . Taken together, there seems no doubt that, in each other, Bachmann and Celan did have that precious, nigh-impossible fellow being: a companion 'you . . . for me . . . sensually and intellectually . . . the two cannot separate.', "Scarcely more breathlessly and desperately can two lovers ever have struggled for words. Little known among German literary historians, the relationship between these two poets amounts to one of the most dramatic and momentous occurrences in German literature." -- FAZ
Table of Content
Editorial Comments List of Scribal Abbreviations Ingeborg Bachmann-Paul Celan Correspondence Paul Celan-Max Frisch Correspondence Ingeborg Bachmann-Gisèle Celan-Lestrange Correspondence Commentary The Secrecy of Letters in the Poems: Poetological Afterword Timeline Bibliography of Biographical Sources Index
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
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Dewey Decimal
831.914
Series
The German List Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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