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Celan

/ ˈɛæ /

noun

  1. CelanPaul19201970MRomanianJewishWRITING: poet Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Celan Palaghia, 21, was jailed for three years for throwing bricks at police officers and setting fire to boxes and a sofa in the street.

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Dr. Langer agreed with writers, many of them Holocaust victims, including Primo Levi, Paul Celan and Tadeusz Borowski, who resisted easy explanations for their experience.

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Your attention to the indeterminate and obscured brings to mind another source, the poet Paul Celan, who wrote: “Speaks true who speaks shadows.”

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These range from the kabbalah to perhaps his favored poet, Paul Celan.

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She mentioned Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Jean Améry, writers who survived the Holocaust and then killed themselves years later, and her eyes welled up.

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