Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
214
Language
Romanian
Published
Jan 1, 1973
Publisher
Editura Univers
Description
"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped and stretched to crack and expose its crust of dead rhetoric Michael Hamburger has earned our gratitude for rendering these poems into a reasonably inventive English "Robert Pinsky, THE NEW REPUBLIC.
Parallel German text and English translation.
Parallel German text and English translation.
Genres
Poetry