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"Fairley’s endlessly careful and brilliantly resourceful translations…he never fails to address himself to the music of the originals."—Daily Telegraph
The last book of Paul Celan, never before translated.
Paul Celan on this book: “A few days ago, with some new poems, I got back the compact diction I’ve been hoping for. There will be a new book.”
Endorsements:
“An indispensable volume for those who would understand the twentieth century.”—George Steiner
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PAUL CELAN was born Paul Ancel of a Jewish family in Romania in 1920. In 1942 his parents were deported and died in an extermination camp. Celan escaped but was in a labour camp until 1944. In 1948 he settled in Paris, where he took up the study of German literature and became a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieur. Paris remained his home until his suicide by drowning in 1970.
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