Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan

(8)
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan image
ISBN-10:

0872868087

ISBN-13:

9780872868083

Author(s): Daive, Jean
Released: Nov 03, 2020
Format: Paperback, 200 pages
Related ISBN: 9781886224971

Description:

An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.

"Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet for whom writing was a matter of life and death."--The New Yorker

"Jean Daive's memoir of his brief but intense spell as confidant and poetic confrère of Paul Celan offers us unique access to the mind and personality of one of the great poets of the dark twentieth century."--J.M. Coetzee

Paul Celan (1920-1970) is considered one of Europe's greatest post-World-War II poets, known for his astonishing experiments in poetic form, expression, and address.Under the Domeis French poet Jean Daive's haunting memoir of his friendship with Celan, a precise yet elliptical account of their daily meetings, discussions, and walks through Paris, a routine that ended suddenly when Celan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Seine. Daive's grief at the loss of his friend finds expression inUnder the Dome, where we are given an intimate insight into Celan's last years, at the height of his poetic powers, and as he approached the moment when he would succumb to the debilitating emotional pain of a Holocaust survivor.

InUnder the Dome,Jean Daive illuminates Celan's process of thinking about poetry, grappling with questions of where it comes from and what it does: invaluable insights about poetry's relation to history and ethics, and how poems offer pathways into a deeper grasp of our past and present. This new edition of Rosmarie Waldrop's masterful translation includes an introduction by scholars Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard, which provides critical, historical, and cultural context for Daive's enigmatic, timeless text.

"Under the Dome breathes with Celan while walking with Celan, walking in the dark and the light with Celan, invoking the stillness, the silence, of thebreathturnwhile speaking for the deeply human necessity of poetry."--Michael Palmer, author ofThe Laughter of the Sphinx

"The fragments textured together in this more-than-magnificent rendering of Jean Daive's prose poem by this master of the word, Rosmarie Waldrop, grab on and leave us haunted and speechless."--Mary Ann Caws, author ofCreative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism and editor of theYale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry

"Rosmarie Waldrop's brilliant translation resonates with her profound knowledge of both Celan's and Daive's poetry and the passion for language that she shares with them. The text brings these three major poets together in a highly unusual and wholly successful collaboration."--Cole Swensen, author ofOn Walking On

"Rosmarie Waldrop takes up Celan's question to Jean Daive as her own. I cannot unread her inimitable ease in these pages. This is a book that contends with time."--Fady Joudah, author ofFootnotes in the Order of Disappearance

"Daive's writing is a highly punctuated recollection, a memoir, perhaps a testimony, but also surely a way of attending to the time of the writing, the conditions and coordinates of Celan's various enunciations, his linguistic humility. ... Celan's death, what Daive calls 'really unforeseeable,' remains as an 'undercurrent' in the conversations recollected here, gathered up again, with an insistence and clarity of true mourning and acknowledgement."--Judith Butler, author ofThe Force of Nonviolence

Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780872868083




Frequently Asked Questions about Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan

You can buy the Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .

The price for the book starts from $9.57 on Amazon and is available from 30 sellers at the moment.

At BookScouter, the prices for the book start at $2.85. Feel free to explore the offers for the book in used or new condition from various booksellers, aggregated on our website.

If you’re interested in selling back the Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.

As for the Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.

The Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 1,983,636 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.

The highest price to sell back the Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan book within the last three months was on December 24 and it was $1.59.