Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. A Note on Translations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Paul Celan’s Bukovina-Meridians 5
6. A ‘Poet in Destitute Times’. Paul Celan and the West German Literary Scene of the 1950s and 1960s 39
7. Translating the Night. On Paul Celan and Fragment 178 of René Char’s Feuillets d’Hypnos 57
8. Translating in a ‘Wholly Other’ German. ‘Ricercar’ 79
9. Celan in English 101
10. ‘Ruf’s, das Schibboleth, hinaus - in die Fremde der Heimat’. gebietscelan in the Poetry of José F. A. Oliver 121
11. Philosophical readings of Paul Celan in France. Three Steps 143
12. Language, Barred. Paul Celan’s Poetological Reduction 159
13. Breath Turn, Linguistic Turn, Political Activism. Reading Celan’s Poems of 1967 181
14. Beyond Poetry. Celan’s Red Folder, May 1968 201
15. Paul Celan’s Successors. From Reverence to Transduction 221
16. ‘almost - you would - have lived’. Reading Paul Celan in Colombia 243
17. Between Poetry and Prayer. A Kaddish for Paul Celan 265
18. Celan’s Correspondence and Correspondence with Celan. Transfer Processes of Life 287
19. Four Images 307
20. Memorial 311
21. Breath 319
22. ‘Huhediblu’ 325
23. We Are All Migrants of Language. A Conversation 339
24. Paul Celan. A Select Bibliography 349
25. Contributors 363
26. Index 365