Published: 2018-11-11

Interrupting When the Murderers Talk. Paul Celan on the Reception of His Works in the Context of Postwar German‑language Artistic and Political Discourses

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Section: Articles and Studies
https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2018.04.15

Abstract

The article is an attempt at analysing the mechanisms of discursive and symbolic violence that could be found in German-language reception of the works by Paul Celan. The criticism – among others by Günter Blöcker and Hans Egon Holthusen – was often grounded upon anti-Semitism; Celan reacted to such criticism highly affectively, noting with concern the return of rhetoric resembling that of Nazi propaganda. The poet expressed his anxieties in a series of letters and several poems; the author of this article interprets them.

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Zając, A. (2018). Interrupting When the Murderers Talk. Paul Celan on the Reception of His Works in the Context of Postwar German‑language Artistic and Political Discourses. Narracje O Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah], (4), 283–297. https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2018.04.15

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Published: 2019-12-08


ISSN: 2450-4424
eISSN: 2451-2133

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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