{"product_id":"celan-studies-9780804744027","title":"Celan Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Szondi's \u003ci\u003eCelan Studies\u003c\/i\u003e marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. \"The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105\" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. \"Reading 'Engführung'\" follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. \"Eden\" addresses \"Du liegst,\" a poem on the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his death in 1971. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Szondi (1929-1971) was Professor of Comparative Literature at the Free University in Berlin. He is the author of groundbreaking works on the theory of drama, on literary hermeneutics, on Hölderlin, and on Celan.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328475074834,"sku":"9780804744027","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62ad6609-d6c9-41d6-843f-027ae824ec63.jpg?v=1727741151","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/celan-studies-9780804744027","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}