Paul Celan: Bütün Şiirlerinden Seçmeler

by Paul Celan, Ahmet Cemal (Translator)

Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 143 p. Bütün siirlerinden seçmeler. Prep. by Ahmet Cemal.

Genres: Poetry

141 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

Poet, translator, essayist, and lecturer, influenced by French Surrealism and Symbolism. Celan was born in Cernăuţi, at the time Romania, now Ukraine, he lived in France, and wrote in German. His parents were killed in the Holocaust; the author himself escaped death by working in a Nazi labor camp. "Death is a Master from Germany", Celan's most quoted words, translated into English in different ways, are from the poem 'Todesfuge' (Death Fugue). Celan's body was found in the Seine river in late April 1970, he had committed suicide.