Paul Celan und der Surrealismus

• Authors: Morar Ovidiu

Title variants

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Paul Celan and Surrealism

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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This essay tries to emphasize the strong connections between Paul Celan’s poetic writing and Surrealism. The poet suffered the major influence of Surrealist aesthetics in the years spent in Bucharest (1945-1947), when he participated in the meetings of the Romanian Surrealist group made up of the poets Gellu Naum, Gherasim Luca, Paul Paun and Virgil Teodorescu. Nevertheless, not only his Romanian writings but also his German poems were influenced by Surrealism, as they mixed his main obsessions (the Jewish tragic condition, the Holocaust, the impossible love, the hopeless suffering, etc.) in a continuous discourse that follows the same dream-like logic according to the Freudian mechanism of displacement, condensation and secondary elaboration. His last poems combined foreign words and phrases taken from other languages in a deliberately eccentric German, this kind of approach being in perfect agreement with the so-called language deterritorialization conducted at the time by Gherasim Luca, who invented an original poetic manner called by Gilles Deleuze prodigious stuttering.

Keywords

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poetry; Surrealism; oneirism; dream; psychoanalysis

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 22 (Polycentric Perspectives on Philology II)
• Pages: 76-96

Contributors

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Morar Ovidiu

• “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania