The Psalms of Death in Paul Celan
Abstract
This article interprets the poetic voice of Paul Celan concerning the topic of death. It highlights his poems that resemble psalms in which prayer and blasphemy are combined facing the question of a specific form of death, the violent one. From the perspective of an aesthetics of suffering, the modes of discourse of Celan’s poetry are analyzed as a prophetic denunciation of systematic violence.
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