Comments on: Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann: Correspondence

By: Let Us Find The Words « French Culture SF

Let Us Find The Words « French Culture SF — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:11:22 +0000

[...] Read more about the history of the legendary correspondence. [...]

By: Ingeborg Bachmann Paul Celan Correspondence « o'connors o'pinions

Ingeborg Bachmann Paul Celan Correspondence « o'connors o'pinions — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:46:47 +0000

[...] This one arrived with the morning post today. Read an interesting review here. [...]

By: The Overexamined Life III: The Lifelogger vs the Lifeblogger | Tomorrow Museum

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:00:26 +0000

[...] sometimes enjoy books of correspondence (especially when the senders brilliant and troubled like Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan,) diaries never really appeal to me as literature. If the point is unpack, unburden, [...]

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:39:52 +0000

Thank you so much for what I have no other choice to call a brilliant review. I finished the book within a week, and was absolutely moved by it. Your review is passionate and at the same time critical and thorough. As a Celan reader for over 20 years now, I’ve learned quite a bit from it. I purchased DARKNESS SPOKEN a few years ago but haven’ the chance to read it, but I certainly will. Both Bachmann an Celan come out of these exchanges as the truly great writers they are, but also as the deeply troubled souls that opened new ways for contemporary art.

Hail!

By: N

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:04:52 +0000

Wow! I just read this again and it made me feel like I discovered these poets one more time. I just bought the book on amazon. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.

Nabeel

By: Ingeborg/Celan Correspondence | Conversational Reading

Ingeborg/Celan Correspondence | Conversational Reading — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:50:59 +0000

[...] Shigekuni on the Ingeborg Bachmann Paul Celan correspondence [...]

By: the lostness of Celan who drifts out into a great ocean « African Alchemy

the lostness of Celan who drifts out into a great ocean « African Alchemy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:25:46 +0000

[...] the astonishing Shigekuni, this moving review of the just-published correspondence between poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg [...]

By: David

David — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:08:03 +0000

Thanks for this passionate review.

I had the great fortune of being introduced to Celan’s work by Michael Hamburger in the early 1970s (shortly after his suicide). Hamburger gave a reading of “Todesfuge” in Boston, followed by a reading of his translation (Hamburger’s Celan translations are still the best).

But I don’t agree entirely that Celan is not obscure. In his later poems of Atemwende and Lichtzwang it is almost as if he lost faith in language as it exists and had to invent an entirely new one – one not easy to understand.

Now I am anxious to re-read Bachmann thanks to your review.

By: panathinaeos

panathinaeos — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:30:22 +0000

I am expecting my copy to arrive any day now. Thank you for the wonderful presentation that is itself a perspective on life’s powerful and destructive attractions. The attraction of life to its death through love.

By: Rita

Rita — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:26:04 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this wonderful summary. I’d love to know how you became interested in Paul Celan and Bachmann. I’ve been reading and studying them for over 15 years now. I agree about Correspondences — it’s an amazing book. Wieland Hoban read from it at the London Review of Books in June.