Death Fugue: Selected Poems by Paul Celan
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Paul Celan is the most influential German-language poet since the second half of the twentieth century. Celan's parents died in the Nazi concentration camps, and he went through hardships and wrote in exile with a heavy memory. Celan's poems are deeply influenced by French Surrealism and are full of bizarre images. The themes are engraved with deep and strong emotional marks, and they weave a sense of rhythm with difficult language and exquisite structures. With his poetry he opened up for all literature the possibility of persevering in speaking in the face of great loss. This book contains 178 of Celan's classic poems selected by Huang Canran, presenting the appearance of Celan's poetry in different periods.
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