Search Results: todesfuge by celan paul

Suhrkamp, 2004. Paperback. New. German language. 6.89x4.53x0.55 inches.

Suhrkamp, 2004. Paperback. New. German language. 6.89x4.53x0.55 inches.

der Hörverlag, 2020. Audio CD. New. German language. 5.51x5.12x0.32 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1984. Kuball, Mischa. Quarto. (54)pp. One of 50 regular copies. Signed by the artist, Mischa Kuball. Verses of Paul Celan's poem, printed on translucent vellum, alternate with white Fabriano paper on which Kuball has executed sharp cuts, which themselves evoke violence, fragmentation, and, aptly for Celan's titular fugue, death. Some sheets, whether vellum or Fabriano, remain immaculate. Todesfugue is one of the few projects by Kaldewey not printed in Helvetica, but in Gill Sans. Bound in black paper over boards, with yellow label to upper cover. Fine, housed in slipcase. (von Lucius, pp. 160-163).

New York: [Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey] Printed in the tower of Poestenkill, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Kuball, Mischa. One of 15 deluxe copies bound in vellum, folio size, 40 pp., signed by Mischa Kuball, in German. "Todesfuge" is one of the "great and terrifying literary works" written by survivors of the Holocaust. Paul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel in Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family, his surname was later spelled Ancel and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his nom de plume. Celan lived in France and was influenced by the French surrealists but wrote his poetry in German (he was well versed in at least six languages, and also translated the work of many notable poets). As a German-speaking Jewish survivor of WWII, living in France, Celan struggled immensely throughout his life with feelings of estrangement from his native language; he is said to have tried to create his own version of the language, emotionally dismantling it, resulting in an… Read More