Den Osten im Westen suchen. Ein konzeptgenetischer Weg durch Paul Celans Pariser Elegie
“Paul Celan/ Parisian Elegy”, or: a Western Route to the East. An Approach to ‘Conceptual Genetics’

Summary/Abstract: This essay aims to reconstruct the conceptual history of the origin and sup-pression of the so-called “Parisian Elegy”, a cycle of poems which Celan planned to include in his No One’s Rose until just a few months before publication (1963). The poet conceived the idea of composing an independent cycle as the closure and peak of the entire collection after he wrote the Valaisian Elegy, a long poem which articulates the arduous search for one’s self through memory and in sorrow. For the outcast poet living in Paris, this search takes on geographical and linguistic contours, as it emerges from the fourth part of No One’s Rose, conceptually and genetically interwoven with “Parisian Elegy”. Following the methodological path of the ‘Conceptual Genetics’, opened in 2010 by Axel Gellhaus, this work tries to demonstrate how deep this cycle interacts with the final cyclic conception of the volume and in which way it seems to predicate a relational and topographical con-science of grief.

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