In 1952, the slim volume of poems "Mohn und Gedächtnis" (Poppy and Memory), bound in black linen, was published by DVA. The author, actually born Paul Antschel in 1920 in Czernowitz/Bukowina, was unknown to the literary public at the time. ...
In 1952, the slim volume of poems "Mohn und Gedächtnis" (Poppy and Memory), bound in black linen, was published by DVA. The author, actually born Paul Antschel in 1920 in Czernowitz/Bukowina, was unknown to the literary public at the time. Today, these 56 poems, including "Todesfuge", his most famous, are among the most important of the 20th century; not least because they are among the earliest testimonies of a poetic confrontation with the Shoah in the Federal Republic. This theme, as well as Celan's disciplined and magically associative language, still allows us to read "Mohn und Gedächtnis" as a new discovery. Now, on the 60th anniversary, this volume is being reissued in a bibliophile format based on the first edition.
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