Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Neue Rundschau
Angaben zur Quelle:
105,4 (1994) 119-134
Keywords:
Celan, Paul
;
Sachs, Nelly
Abstract:
Based on the correspondence between Celan and Sachs, discusses their relationship ca. 1959, when Celan published his volume "Sprachgitter". Celan was deeply hurt by negative German criticism, which he saw as an attack on him as a Jew, and as a failure to understand his work as an outcry against the Holocaust and the culture that produced it. He turned to Sachs, as his Jewish "sister", for understanding, but she misinterpreted his poems as mystical hymns. Asserts that there was an unbridgeable conflict between Celan's uncompromising, unforgiving presentation of the Holocaust and Sachs's wish to transcend it through love, reconciliation, religion. These differences were translated into the use they made of language and poetry. Their meeting in Zürich in 1959, recorded in Celan's poem "Zürich. Zum Storchen", was disastrous.
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