Krata mowy / Sprachgitter / .רוביד גרוס Syntaktyka niemieckojęzycznych wierszy Paula Celana w świetle judaizmu pneumatycznego
Speechgrille / Sprachgitter / רוביד גרוס : Syntax of Paul Celan’s German-Language Poems in Light of Pneumatic Judaism

Summary/Abstract: In Paul Celan’s most important self-commentary on his work, Meridian, he describeswriting poems as liberation from his own narrow perspective. For Celan, this narrowperspective stems from his choice of German as the language of his poems, even thoughhe was sentenced in the very language. His process of liberating from Muttersprachehappens mostly by means of syntactic maneuvers, which always turn to the Jewishtheological tradition. However, Judaic thought in Celan’s poetry does not reveal itself incontent but as pneuma. This article traces the syntactic mechanisms that allow Celanto go beyond normative German language and encode in poetry a particle of Jewishidentity. Since the volume Sprachgitter, the eponymous “speechgrille” befalls Celan’sphrasing, permeating sentences and arranging phrases in syntactically non-normativepositions. When reading aloud, the places of these maneuvers are determined by breaksin breathing and the speaker’s Moses-like stammer.

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