PAUL CELAN'S TODESFUGE

Paul Celan, a German-language poet born in Rumania in 1920, wrote Todesfuge (Deathfugue) in 1944. During the 1950s and 1960s, the poem received widespread notoriety in German media and textbooks. Readers focused upon its artfulness, often ignoring its subject, the Nazi death camps and genocide. The...

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Published in:Holocaust and genocide studies
Main Author: Felstiner, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 1986
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
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Summary:Paul Celan, a German-language poet born in Rumania in 1920, wrote Todesfuge (Deathfugue) in 1944. During the 1950s and 1960s, the poem received widespread notoriety in German media and textbooks. Readers focused upon its artfulness, often ignoring its subject, the Nazi death camps and genocide. The process of translating Todesfuge can become a way of revealing the poem's fullest sense, as probably the pre-eminent lyric to have emerged from the European Jewish catastrophe.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/1.2.249