Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T17:10:34.396Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Why Paul Celan Took Alarm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Yves Bonnefoy
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

It's Only Normal that Paul Celan was harshly affected by the base slander—accusations of plagiarism—leveled at him by Claire Goll. It's less normal that he should have suffered from this all his life even though these clearly mendacious accusations allowed him to know that most readers spontaneously took his side.

This brief essay tries to grasp the reasons for this irreducible affliction and finds them in the deepest rapport between a poet and his thought of what poetry is.

Type
Criticism in translation
Information
PMLA , Volume 125 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 207 - 212

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)