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Paul Celan, Poems and prose of Youth "Concert

has been published, with the help of Romanian Cultural Institute, the book Poems and prose of youth " (original title" Das Frühwerk) of Paul Celan, translated by José Luis Reina Palazón and Ioana Zlotescu.

"The early work of Paul Celan has been known until now only in fragments from scattered publications. This period building is divided into three different stages: first, what Celan later called 'homeland', the Bukovina, then stay, between 1945 and 1947 in the Romanian capital Bucharest, where he earned his living as a translator from Russian into Romanian and published his first poems under the name of Celan, including Romanian texts and poems in 1952 initiated yet poppy and memory, and finally, Vienna, which was a way station and left Celan in July 1948 for Paris.
This edition documents the beginning of Celan's poetic work with the greatest detail as possible and makes it available as a whole for understanding the later work. Meets for the first time all the poems written before moving to Paris as well as the prose of Celan texts of the period, comprising about ten years ago and, from 1938 until mid 1948. "(Www.trotta.es/)

Paul Celan. Born November 23, 1920 in Czernowitz, then Romanian city. His parents, Jewish and German-speaking, belong to the bourgeoisie of the Bukovina, a region characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity, which until 1918 was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1939, due to the start of the war, Celan abandoned his medical studies started in Tours (France) and enrollment in Romance Philology at the University of Czernowitz. His parents are deported to a German concentration camp where he died tragically in 1942. Celan spend the remaining years of the war in labor camps of the Romanian army. In the early postwar years performing work as a reader and translator in Bucharest and Vienna. From 1948 lives in Paris, where he studied German literature at the Sorbonne. He received the Literature Award from the city of Bremen in 1958 and the prize "Georg Buchner" in 1960. Besides his literary activity, Paul Celan known for his numerous translations of French-translated, among others, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Valery, Russian, English, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese and Hebrew. Dies, suicide, on April 20, 1970 in Paris. Paul Celan was also published in the Editorial Trotta: "Complete Works" (2009), "Posthumous Poems" (2003), and "correspondence with Nelly Sachs (2007). (Www.trotta.es/)

Editorial Trotta
Collection: The Joy of Mute
ISBN 978-84-9879-182-2
Year: 2010
No. pages: 248
Price: 20.00 €

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