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Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs
Correspondence
Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs; John Felstiner, intro.; Christopher Clark, trs.; Barbara Wiedemann, ed.
Sheep Meadow Press
distributed by
University Press of New England
1998 • 126 pp. 7 illus. 6 x 9"
Biography & Letters / Poetry Criticism
$13.95 Paper, 978-1-878818-71-3
$24.95 Cloth, 978-1-878818-37-9
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Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.
From the Book:
"Divide yourself night
both your irradiated wings
tremble with horror
for I will go
and bring you back the bloody evening"
-- from Nelly Sachs's last letter to Paul Celan
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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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