Lichtzwang

Lichtzwang (rendered in English as Lightduress) is a 1970 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan. It was written in 1967, and published three months after Celan's death. It was published in an English translation in 2005 by Green Integer.

Lichtzwang
AuthorPaul Celan
TranslatorPierre Joris
LanguageGerman
PublisherSuhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
July 1970
Published in English
Green Integer, 2005
Pages108

Publication

The book was published in Germany in 1970 through Suhrkamp Verlag. In 2005, an English-language translation by Pierre Joris was published. Joris won the American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for the book; the motivation said that "The translations are consistently alert to the subtle and often bewildering thought-turns of the original, his lyric sense of pause, suspension and onrush can keep pace with the German, and his vast knowledge of Celan's life and world allow vital commentary and annotations. ... [T]his volume is everything a poetic translation should be."[1]

Reception

Mark Glanville reviewed the book in Jewish Quarterly in 2005: "In the terse economy of Lichtzwang language has become as constricted as the divine light captured in the kabbalistic kelippot (shells) that Celan alludes to elsewhere, and to which the title of this collection might well refer. We are aware of the poet's battle against the dying of the light, one he eventually lost, but the quality and nature of the struggle is such as to leave us with a body of work by which we continue to be illuminated and inspired."[2]

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See also

References
  1. "2005 Literary Awards Winners: PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. PEN American Center. Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-03-07.
  2. Glanville, Mark (2005). "Searching for Reality". Jewish Quarterly (197). Retrieved 2012-03-07.
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