Paul Celan in Russia (To the Centennial of His Birth)

“…The article analyzes the peculiarities of Russian reception of the creative work and the personality of the ‘European citizen’, German-language poet Paul Celan (23.11.1920, Czernowitz, Romania – 20.04.1970, Paris, France). Paul Celan, – a Jew by birth, a Soviet Ukrainian by compulsion, an Austrian and a German by the language and a Frenchman by the place of emigration and death – brought into the European culture “after the Holocaust” acutely tragic, saliently humane and morally eternal meanings. …”
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