Paul Celan's Encounters with Surrealism : Trauma, Translation and Shared Poetic Space

ISBN-13: 9781906540777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 206 str.

Charlotte Ryland

Opis

Paul Celan (1920-1970), one of the most important and challenging poets in post-war Europe, was also a prolific and highly idiosyncratic translator. His post-Holocaust writing is inextricably linked to the specific experiences that have shaped contemporary European and American identity, and at the same time has its roots in literary, philosophical and scientific traditions that range across continents and centuries - surrealism being a key example. Celan's early works emerge from a fruitful period for surrealism, and they bear the marks of that style, not least because of the deep affinity he felt with the need to extend the boundaries of expression. In this comparative and intertextual study, Charlotte Ryland shows that this interaction continued throughout Celan's lifetime, largely through translation of French surrealist poems, and that Celan's great oeuvre can thus be understood fully only in the light of its interaction with surrealist texts and artworks, which finally gives rise to a wholly new poetics of translation.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. ‘Ich werde ziemlich oft des Surrealismus bezichtigt — das ist natürlich Unsinn!’: Paul Celan and Surrealism 2. Translation as Homage: Celan and Éluard's Capitale de la douleur 3. Communicating Vessels: ‘Edgar Jené und der Traum vom Traume’ 4. Writing after the Disaster: Surrealistische Publikationen 5. Der Schatten Schatten sein': Celan's Encounter with Robert Desnos 6. Anders von Mal zu Mal': Celan's Encounter with Paul Éluard 7. In Enis': Shared Poetic Space 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Charlotte Ryland