Gert Hofmann

Rachel MagShamhráin

Marko Pajević

Michael Shields

New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.

Crisis and Creativity

German and European Poetics After the Holocaust

Karen Leeder

Michael Eskin

Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why does Celan still matter today – more than ever perhaps? And why should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume explores and assesses the enduring significance of Celan's life and œuvre in and for the 21st century. Boasting cutting-edge research by international scholars together with original contributions by contemporary artists and writers, this book attests to, on the one hand, the extent to which large swathes of contemporary philosophy, poetics, literary scholarship, and aesthetics have been indebted to Celan's legacy and are simply unthinkable without it, and, on the other hand, to the malleability, adaptability, breadth and depth of Celan's poetics, which, like the music of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Queen, is reborn and rediscovered with every new generation.

A Companion

Paul Celan Today

Marko Pajević

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