Stationen poetischer Entwicklung

Paul Celans GedichtbƤnde in chronologisch-historischer Folge

By (author) Petro Rychlo

Book cover: Stationen poetischer Entwicklung

Extent: 131 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(April 2022)

ISBN: 9783847114437

6.1 x 9.13 inches

Price: $38.00

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Paul Celans poetisches Werk stellt eine geschlossene Einheit dar, und das lasst sich besonders anschaulich feststellen, wenn man innere Beziehungen zwischen einzelnen Gedichtbanden, Gedichtzyklen, ja sogar zwischen einzelnen Gedichten verfolgt.


The research included in this book covers creative and production-aesthetic aspects of Paul Celan’s poetry collections. They trace the author’s process, from emergence of the first poetic idea to realization of the poetic message. The time and circumstances of the poems, their thematic consistency, titles, architectonics of collections (order of poems, their cyclization, configuration of poetic lines), as well as contacts with publishers, correspondence with editors, printing, and design of poetry books play an important role in this case. The dialogic principle immanent in Celan’s poetry is realized here at the level of verbal, thematic, figurative, and structural “antiphons”. In general, Celan’s poetry collections form an intertextual chain, whose links are inseparably linked with each other.

  • By (author) Petro Rychlo