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Linguistic Acts: Yoko Tawada’s “Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel,” translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Language is at the center of the book. It could almost be said that the action of the novel follows linguistic acts, rather than happenings in the real world. Patrik’s internal monologue is steeped in Celan-words, particularly those from his 1968 book “Fadensonnen” (Threadsuns).
The Net and the Fence: On Jean Daive’s “Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan,” Translated from French by Rosmarie Waldrop
By Anna Levett Several times in Under the Dome, Jean Daive’s elliptical, poetic memoir about his friendship with the Jewish German-language poet Paul Celan, a net bag makes an appearance. I imagine it’s the kind of bag in which you would carry fruits or vegetables that you’d bought from a market—a bag made of mesh […]