Celan and Heidegger
on the Responsibility of the Poetic and the Philosophical
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https://doi.org/10.48075/a4bj1v12Keywords:
Twentieth-Century German Poetry, Poeticas, Hölderlin, Todtnauberg, ShoáAbstract
This article reexamines the relationship between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger in light of the documentation assembled by scholarship. First, it reconstructs Celan's early readings of Heidegger and their influence on his conception of poetry. It then discusses Gerhart Baumann's account of the Freiburg encounter, comparing it with the impressions Celan recorded in his correspondence. It next offers a close analysis of the poem Todtnauberg, together with the Vorwort Heidegger wrote on the front page of the copy Celan sent him. Finally, it considers the testimonies concerning Celan's last visit to Germany, along with the draft of a letter to Heidegger that Celan never sent, found among his papers years after his suicide in Paris in 1970.
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