Studies in 20th Century Literature Volume 12 Issue 2 Article 4 6-1-1988 Anamnesis: Paul Celan's Translations of Poetry Leonard Olschner Cornell University Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl Part of the French and Francophone Literature Commons, and the German Literature Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Olschner, Leonard (1988) "Anamnesis: Paul Celan's Translations of Poetry," Studies in 20th Century Literature: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1215 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studies in 20th Century Literature by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Anamnesis: Paul Celan's Translations of Poetry Abstract Paul Celan's significance as a poet has long been undisputed, and increasingly outside German-speaking countries, but his translations of poetry have remained at the periphery of critical attention and are only gradually becoming recognized as an integral and indeed major part of his poetry and poetics. The present essay attempts to elucidate specific aspects of the biographical, linguistic, literary and historical background at work in Celan's translating and offers analytic interpretations of texts by Mandel'stam, Apollinaire and Shakespeare in Celan's translation. Keywords Paul Celan, German, German-speaking, poetry, translation, poetics, biographical, linguistic, literary, historical background, Mandel'stam, Apollinaire, Shakespeare This article is available in Studies in 20th Century Literature: https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol12/iss2/4 Olschner: Anamnesis: Paul Celan's Translations of Poetry ANAMNESIS: PAUL CELAN'S TRANSLATIONS OF POETRY Leonard Olschner Cornell University In Flannery O'Connor's story "The Displaced Person," Mr.