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Article: Poet of Anguish.(BOOK WORLD)(Paul Celan)(Biography)
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- The World and I
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- November 1, 2007
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He was a most unlikely person to become the leading German poet after World War II.
A noted German philosopher and critic had once said, "One can't write poetry after Auschwitz," referring to the infamous Nazi extermination camp in southern Poland during World War II. But Paul Celan, whose life was greatly affected by events of the war, did just that, writing poetry that was more than an outlet for his despair. He wrote poems that spoke directly to a continent, indeed the world.
The life story of Paul Celan is immensely moving and almost unbearably tragic. He was born in 1920 to a German-speaking family in the city of Czernowitz, then in Romania. Close ...
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