{"product_id":"conversation-in-the-mountains-collected-prose-of-paul-celan-9780811240529","title":"Conversation in the Mountains: Collected Prose of Paul Celan","description":"\"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens.\" So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes: \"Edgar Jené and the Dream about the Dream,\" \"Backlight,\" \"The Meridian,\" and the piece which Celan himself deemed his most important, \"Conversation in the Mountains.\" George Steiner wrote in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e that Celan's prose was \"transforming the landscape of poetic theory and of the philosophy of language.\" This collection of essays, speeches, letters, as well as notes on Alexander Blok and Osip Mandelstam is a great gift to readers and to anyone who wishes to understand the twentieth century. As the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer wrote, \"Paul Celan's poems reach us, but we miss them.\" Perhaps through these rare prose texts we may find the key to what we missed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Celan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 4.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811240529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCelan, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Celan\u003c\/strong\u003e (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel of a German-speaking Jewish family in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Romania. He was sent to a labor camp during World War II. After the war, he settled in Paris where he lived with his wife Gisèle Lestrange until his death. He is widely considered to be one of the most innovative and important poets of the twentieth century.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaldrop, Rosmarie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRosmarie Waldrop\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are \u003cem\u003eThe Nick of Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGap Gardening: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and \u003cem\u003eDriven to Abstraction\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Paul Celan \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48363622727837,"sku":"9780811240529","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_b92c2a57-698d-4a5c-afb9-6a4984aa2723.jpg?v=1780427909","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/conversation-in-the-mountains-collected-prose-of-paul-celan-9780811240529","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}