Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs : Correspondence, Hardback Book

Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs : Correspondence Hardback

Edited by Barbara Wiedemann

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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. 'What Paul Celan once said of his mother tongue holds as well for Nelly Sachs: 'Reachable, near and not lost, there remained amid the losses this one thing: language.

It, the language, remained, not lost, yes in spite of everything.

But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of death bringing speech'.

Sachs put it this way: 'The frightful experiences that brought me to the edge of death and darkness are my tutors.

If I couldn't have written, I wouldn't have survived...my metaphors are my wounds'.

From the Introduction.

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