‘…He was looking for that, «what has space, even without language». On the other hand, the "devouring" story had left him with a language, for which there was no more room. On the night of 19. to the 20. April 1970 Paul Celan must have thrown himself into the Seine near the Pont Mirabeau – from the edge of silence. ‘ (NZZ-Feuillton)
How easy it is to forget, you can also recognize it, how Paul Tselan's work was received in the post-war literary period. The group 47 booed him, 1970, Twenty-five years after the genocide of the Jews, people were apparently no longer receptive to Paul Celan's poetry.
How could Paul Celan have struck a different note and erased the never-ending pain from his poetry, so, as if writing were a kind of trend, like fashion?!
Paul Tselan birthplace in Czernowitz, Romania, was captured, his people (6 Mio.) was wiped out, his parents were deported and murdered …. and you weren't ready, him the about the “Death joint” circulating poems until the end of his life?!
Von 1945 to 1970; these are 25 Years! Imagine …… the silly hopper cannot remember even a quarter of a century.
‘The syllable pain’
It got into your hands:
a you, thirteen,
where all I came to itself. It drove
wordless voices all around, empty forms, everything
went into her, mixed
and unmixed
and again
mixed.
And numbers were
woven into that
uncountable. One and a thousand and what
before and after
was bigger than itself, kleiner, out-
matured and
return- and away-
transformed into
germinating never.
Forgotten grip
for something to forget, continents, pieces of heart
swim,
sank and swam. Columbus,
the time-
loose in aug, the mother-
Blume,
slaughtered masts and sails. Everything went out,
free,
exploratory,
the compass rose bloomed, leafed through
from, a world sea
blossomed in abundance, in the black light
the wild tax strokes. In coffins,
urns, Canopy
the little children woke up
Jaspis, Purchase, Amethyst _ peoples,
tribes and clans, a blind one
be it
tied in
the snake-headed free-
Tue-: a
node
(and cons- and against- and but- and twins- and dew-
the send node), and that
the carnival-eyed brood
the marten stars in the abyss
buch-, buch-, buch-
stabilized.’