“The Halo Paul Celan”. Revisiting Romanian manuscripts of Paul Celan
“The Halo Paul Celan”. Revisiting Romanian manuscripts of Paul Celan

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to explore Paul Celan’s writings in the Romanian language which have been preserved as manuscripts, and their significance to his very earliest poetry. Firstly, I will reconstruct the Bucharest episode in his life and work and then discuss the nature of the manuscripts that I examined in 2015. I will then recapitulate existing research on these texts. Discussing one of them, I will propose to update their meaning for this poetic work, especially in the context of Jacques Derrida’s Shibboleth for Paul Celan.

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