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CORRESPONDENCE - PAUL CELAN INGEBORG BACHMANN K...

Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust  many of his poems
admired for their spare  precise diction  deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most
important novelists  poets  and playwrights. It seems only appropriate that these two
contemporaries and masters of language were at one time lovers  and they shared a lengthy
artful and passionate correspondence. Collected here for the first time in English are their
letters written between 1948 and 1961. Their correspondence forms a moving testimony of the
discourse of love in the age after Auschwitz  with all the symptomatic disturbances and crises
caused by their conflicting backgrounds and their hard-to-reconcile designs for living--as a
woman  as a man  as writers. In addition to the almost 200 letters  the volume includes an
important exchange between Bachmann and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange  who married Celan in 1951  as
well as the letters between Paul Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch.Scarcely more breathlessly
and desperately can two lovers ever have struggled for words. Little known among German
literary historians  the relationship between these two poets amounts to one of the most
dramatic and momentous occurrences in German literature.--FAZ  on the German edition

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