'Give it the shade': Paul Celan and the politics of apolitical poetry

Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 661-676

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1. I am grateful to Jim George and Christine Sylvester for critical comments on an earlier draft. Thanks as well to the librarian at the Sainte Geneviève for handing me over, years ago, the 'fateful' version of Atemwende, to Fiona Sampson for her inspiring Aberystwyth International Poetry Fest, and to Ralf Bönt for the ongoing 'Berlin' conversation, and to Pierre Joris for sharing his translations of Celan at a time of need.
2. J. Szász, 'Es ist nicht so einfach ...: Erinnerungen an Paul Celan', in W. Hamacher and W. Menninghaus (eds), Paul Celan (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1988), pp. 325-3.
3. P. Celan, 'Sprich auch du', in Von Schwelle zu Schwelle, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1986), p. 135, as M. Hamburger (trans.), 'Speak, you also', in Poems of Paul Celan (New York, Parsea, 1988), p. 99.
4. P. Celan, 'Sprich auch du', in Von Schwelle zu Schwelle, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1986), p. 135, as M. Hamburger (trans.), 'Speak, you also', in Poems of Paul Celan (New York, Parsea, 1988), p. 99.
5. For biographical accounts see J. Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1995); I. Chalfen, Paul Celan: a Biography of his Youth, M. Bleyleben (trans.) (New York, Persea, 1991); A. Colin (ed.), Argumentum e Silentio (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1987).
6. For biographical accounts see J. Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1995); I. Chalfen, Paul Celan: a Biography of his Youth, M. Bleyleben (trans.) (New York, Persea, 1991); A. Colin (ed.), Argumentum e Silentio (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1987).
7. For biographical accounts see J. Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1995); I. Chalfen, Paul Celan: a Biography of his Youth, M. Bleyleben (trans.) (New York, Persea, 1991); A. Colin (ed.), Argumentum e Silentio (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1987).
8. G. Steiner, Language and Silence (London, Faber and Faber, 1967), pp. 121-1.
9. Celan, 'Ansprache anlässlich der Entgegennahme des Literaturpreises der Freien Hansestadt Bremen', in Gesammelte Werke, Vol. III, pp. 185-6. For a translation by R. Waldrop see 'Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen', in Celan, Collected Prose (Riverdale-on-Hudson NY, Sheep Meadow, 1986), pp. 33-5.
10. Celan, 'Ansprache anlässlich der Entgegennahme des Literaturpreises der Freien Hansestadt Bremen', in Gesammelte Werke, Vol. III, pp. 185-6. For a translation by R. Waldrop see 'Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen', in Celan, Collected Prose (Riverdale-on-Hudson NY, Sheep Meadow, 1986), pp. 33-5.
11. Celan, 'Tübingen, Jänner', in Die Niemandsrose, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I, p. 226, 'Tübingen, January', in M. Hamburger (trans.), Poems of Paul Celan, p. 177.
12. Celan, 'Tübingen, Jänner', in Die Niemandsrose, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I, p. 226, 'Tübingen, January', in M. Hamburger (trans.), Poems of Paul Celan, p. 177.
13. Celan, 'Todesfuge', in Mohn und Gedächtnis, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I, p. 41, 'Death Fugue', in Hamburger (trans.), Poems of Paul Celan, p. 61.
14. Celan, 'Todesfuge', in Mohn und Gedächtnis, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I, p. 41, 'Death Fugue', in Hamburger (trans.), Poems of Paul Celan, p. 61.
15. J. Glenn, Paul Celan (New York, Twayne, 1973), pp. 69-70.
16. Hamburger, 'Introduction' to Poems of Paul Celan, p. 22.
17. T. W. Adorno, Prismen: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1955), p. 31.
18. J. D. Caputo, Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction (Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1993), p. 183.
19. Caputo, Against Ethics, pp. 181-2.
20. P. Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor, R. Czerny (trans.) (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1977), p. 7.
21. Glenn, Paul Celan, pp. 70-4.
22. Celan, 'Todesfuge', p. 42, Hamburger (trans.), p. 63.
23. Celan, 'Todesfuge', p. 42, Hamburger (trans.), p. 63.
24. C. Samuels, Holocaust Visions: Surrealism and Existentialism in the Poetry of Paul Celan (Columbia SC, Camden House, 1993), p. 101.
25. Glenn, Paul Celan, pp. 75-6.
26. L. L. Langer, Art from the Ashes: a Holocaust Anthology (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 11.
27. Lamping, Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith, p. 276; Langer, Art from the Ashes, p. 3 and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1975), pp. 1-30; A. Udoff, 'On Poetic Dwelling: Situating Celan and the Holocaust', in Fioretos, Word Traces, p. 324; H. Schütz, Juden in der Deutschen Literatur (München, Piper, 1992), pp. 312-3; R. L. Braham (ed.), Reflections of the Holocaust in Art und Literature (New York, Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. v-vii.
28. Lamping, Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith, p. 276; Langer, Art from the Ashes, p. 3 and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1975), pp. 1-30; A. Udoff, 'On Poetic Dwelling: Situating Celan and the Holocaust', in Fioretos, Word Traces, p. 324; H. Schütz, Juden in der Deutschen Literatur (München, Piper, 1992), pp. 312-3; R. L. Braham (ed.), Reflections of the Holocaust in Art und Literature (New York, Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. v-vii.
29. Lamping, Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith, p. 276; Langer, Art from the Ashes, p. 3 and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1975), pp. 1-30; A. Udoff, 'On Poetic Dwelling: Situating Celan and the Holocaust', in Fioretos, Word Traces, p. 324; H. Schütz, Juden in der Deutschen Literatur (München, Piper, 1992), pp. 312-3; R. L. Braham (ed.), Reflections of the Holocaust in Art und Literature (New York, Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. v-vii.
30. Lamping, Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith, p. 276; Langer, Art from the Ashes, p. 3 and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1975), pp. 1-30; A. Udoff, 'On Poetic Dwelling: Situating Celan and the Holocaust', in Fioretos, Word Traces, p. 324; H. Schütz, Juden in der Deutschen Literatur (München, Piper, 1992), pp. 312-3; R. L. Braham (ed.), Reflections of the Holocaust in Art und Literature (New York, Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. v-vii.
31. Lamping, Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith, p. 276; Langer, Art from the Ashes, p. 3 and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1975), pp. 1-30; A. Udoff, 'On Poetic Dwelling: Situating Celan and the Holocaust', in Fioretos, Word Traces, p. 324; H. Schütz, Juden in der Deutschen Literatur (München, Piper, 1992), pp. 312-3; R. L. Braham (ed.), Reflections of the Holocaust in Art und Literature (New York, Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. v-vii.
32. Lamping, Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith, p. 276; Langer, Art from the Ashes, p. 3 and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1975), pp. 1-30; A. Udoff, 'On Poetic Dwelling: Situating Celan and the Holocaust', in Fioretos, Word Traces, p. 324; H. Schütz, Juden in der Deutschen Literatur (München, Piper, 1992), pp. 312-3; R. L. Braham (ed.), Reflections of the Holocaust in Art und Literature (New York, Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. v-vii.
33. J. E. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation (Bloomington IN, Indiana Unversity Press, 1988), pp. 1, 5.
34. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, pp. 83-93.
35. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, p. 92.
36. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, p. 93.
37. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, pp. 84, 191-2.
38. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, p. 93.
39. G. Vincent, Sous le soleil noir du temps: Trakl, Mandelstam, Celan (Lausanne, L'âge d'homme, 1991), p. 113.
40. F. Kröll, 'Anverwandlung der "Klassischen Moderne"', in L. Fischer (ed.), Literatur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bis 1967 (München, Carl Hanser, 1986), pp. 258-9.
41. H. Schlösser, 'Subjektivität und Autobiographie', in K. Briegleb and S. Weigel (eds), Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1968 (München, Carl Hanser, 1992), pp. 406-7.
42. H. Weinrich cited in K. Krolow, 'Lyrik', in D. Lattmann (ed.), Die Literatur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Zürich, Kindler, 1973), pp. 443-4.
43. Celan, 'Engführung', in Sprachgitter, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I, pp. 197-8, M. Hamburger (trans.) as 'The Straitening', in Poems of Paul Celan, p. 137.
44. Celan, 'Engführung', in Sprachgitter, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I, pp. 197-8, M. Hamburger (trans.) as 'The Straitening', in Poems of Paul Celan, p. 137.
45. P. Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt: Versuch über die Verständlichkeit des modernen Gedichts', in Celan-Studien (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1972), p. 48. For a translation by D. Cadwell and S. Esh see 'Reading "Engführung": an essay on the poetry of Paul Celan', Boundary 2, 11, 3 (1983), 231-64.
46. P. Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt: Versuch über die Verständlichkeit des modernen Gedichts', in Celan-Studien (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1972), p. 48. For a translation by D. Cadwell and S. Esh see 'Reading "Engführung": an essay on the poetry of Paul Celan', Boundary 2, 11, 3 (1983), 231-64.
47. Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt', p. 49.
48. Concurring on this interpretation are Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt', p. 50 and V. M. Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets (New Jersey, Humanities, 1992), p. 86.
49. Concurring on this interpretation are Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt', p. 50 and V. M. Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets (New Jersey, Humanities, 1992), p. 86.
50. Weissenberger, Die Elegie bei Paul Celan (Bern, Francke, 1969), p. 48.
51. Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt', pp. 51-2.
52. Celan, 'Der Meridian', in Gesammelte Werke, Vol. III, p. 196. For a translation by Waldrop see 'The Meridian', in Celan, Collected Prose, pp. 37-55.
53. Celan, 'Der Meridian', in Gesammelte Werke, Vol. III, p. 196. For a translation by Waldrop see 'The Meridian', in Celan, Collected Prose, pp. 37-55.
54. Celan, 'Antwort auf eine Umfrage der Librairie Flinker, Paris 1958' in Gesammelte Werke, Vol. III, p. 168. For a translation by Waldrop see 'Reply to Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1958', in Celan, Collected Prose, pp. 15-16.
55. Celan, 'Antwort auf eine Umfrage der Librairie Flinker, Paris 1958' in Gesammelte Werke, Vol. III, p. 168. For a translation by Waldrop see 'Reply to Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1958', in Celan, Collected Prose, pp. 15-16.
56. Celan cited in Felstiner, Paul Celan, p. 118.
57. Celan, 'Engführung', pp. 199-200, Hamburger, p. 141.
58. Celan, 'Engführung', pp. 199-200, Hamburger, p. 141.
59. Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, p. 89. See also Weissenberger, Die Elegie bei Paul Celan, pp. 49-50.
60. Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, p. 89. See also Weissenberger, Die Elegie bei Paul Celan, pp. 49-50.
61. Derrida, 'Shibboleth for Paul Celan', pp. 50-1.
62. Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt', pp. 70-4.
63. Celan, 'Der Meridian', p. 197.
64. Schmidt 'Black Milk and Blue', p. 155.
65. Celan, 'In den Flüssen', in Atemwende, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. II, p. 14. For a translation by Joris see Celan, Breathturn p. 61.
66. Celan, 'In den Flüssen', in Atemwende, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. II, p. 14. For a translation by Joris see Celan, Breathturn p. 61.
67. H. G. Gadamer, Wer bin Ich und wer bist Du? (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1973) pp 35-9, R. Heinemann and B. Krajewski (trans.) as 'Who Am I and Who Are You', in Gadamer on Celan (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1997) pp. 83-4.
68. H. G. Gadamer, Wer bin Ich und wer bist Du? (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1973) pp 35-9, R. Heinemann and B. Krajewski (trans.) as 'Who Am I and Who Are You', in Gadamer on Celan (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1997) pp. 83-4.
69. Celan, 'Antwort auf eine Umfrage', p. 167.
70. Celan 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 195; See also Hamburger, 'Introduction', p. 27; Schmidt, 'Black Milk and Blue', pp. 114-6; Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 05-6; L. Olschner, 'Poetic Mutations of Silence: at the Nexus of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam', in Fioretos, Word Traces, pp. 369-70.
71. Celan 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 195; See also Hamburger, 'Introduction', p. 27; Schmidt, 'Black Milk and Blue', pp. 114-6; Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 05-6; L. Olschner, 'Poetic Mutations of Silence: at the Nexus of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam', in Fioretos, Word Traces, pp. 369-70.
72. Celan 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 195; See also Hamburger, 'Introduction', p. 27; Schmidt, 'Black Milk and Blue', pp. 114-6; Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 05-6; L. Olschner, 'Poetic Mutations of Silence: at the Nexus of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam', in Fioretos, Word Traces, pp. 369-70.
73. Celan 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 195; See also Hamburger, 'Introduction', p. 27; Schmidt, 'Black Milk and Blue', pp. 114-6; Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 05-6; L. Olschner, 'Poetic Mutations of Silence: at the Nexus of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam', in Fioretos, Word Traces, pp. 369-70.
74. Celan 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 195; See also Hamburger, 'Introduction', p. 27; Schmidt, 'Black Milk and Blue', pp. 114-6; Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 05-6; L. Olschner, 'Poetic Mutations of Silence: at the Nexus of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam', in Fioretos, Word Traces, pp. 369-70.
75. D. Kohler-Luginbühl, Poetik im Lichte der Utopie: Paul Celans poetologische Texte (Bern, Peter Lang, 1986), p. 266.
76. Celan, 'Engführung', p. 204, Hamburger, pp. 147-9.
77. Celan, 'Engführung', p. 204, Hamburger, pp. 147-9.
78. Szondi, 'Durch die Enge geführt', p. 108.
79. Celan, 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 186; 'Der Meridian', p. 198.
80. Celan, 'Ansprache in Bremen', p. 186; 'Der Meridian', p. 198.
81. E. Levinas, 'De l'être à l'autre', in Noms Propres (Paris, Fata Morgana, 1976), pp. 59-66. See also Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 105-12; Evelyn Hunnecke, Poésie et Poétique de Paul Celan, Doctorat d'Etat, Aix Marsaille I, 1987; Kohler-Luginbühl, Poetik im Lichte der Utopie, pp. 59-65.
82. E. Levinas, 'De l'être à l'autre', in Noms Propres (Paris, Fata Morgana, 1976), pp. 59-66. See also Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 105-12; Evelyn Hunnecke, Poésie et Poétique de Paul Celan, Doctorat d'Etat, Aix Marsaille I, 1987; Kohler-Luginbühl, Poetik im Lichte der Utopie, pp. 59-65.
83. E. Levinas, 'De l'être à l'autre', in Noms Propres (Paris, Fata Morgana, 1976), pp. 59-66. See also Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 105-12; Evelyn Hunnecke, Poésie et Poétique de Paul Celan, Doctorat d'Etat, Aix Marsaille I, 1987; Kohler-Luginbühl, Poetik im Lichte der Utopie, pp. 59-65.
84. E. Levinas, 'De l'être à l'autre', in Noms Propres (Paris, Fata Morgana, 1976), pp. 59-66. See also Fóti, Heidegger and the Poets, pp. 105-12; Evelyn Hunnecke, Poésie et Poétique de Paul Celan, Doctorat d'Etat, Aix Marsaille I, 1987; Kohler-Luginbühl, Poetik im Lichte der Utopie, pp. 59-65.
85. Celan cited in Kohler-Luginbühl, Poetik im Lichte der Utopie, p. 59.
86. L. Wittgenstein, Philosophische Untersuchungen, in Werkausgabe Band 1 (Frankfurt Suhrkamp, 1993), p. 250, § 23.