Stéphan Crasneanscki, The Encounter

The Encounter

Stéphan Crasneanscki

Publisher
Libraryman
Year
2022
ISBN
978-91-88113-58-0
Specifications
Paul Celan + Martin Heidegger
Offset printed clothbound hardcover
24 × 30.3 cm
128 pages
57 color plates
Linen thread bound
Gold headband
Authentic tip-in image on front cover with typography on front cover and spine in white foil
The book contains a foreword by poet, essayist and anthologist Pierre Joris, a preface by Stéphan Crasneanscki, a text by musician, author and poet Patti Smith and an excerpt and an essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy
First edition of 700 copies
Special edition of 25 copies, numbered, in paperboard slipcase, with signed original print

There are no photographs, no testimonies, no recordings of poet Paul Celan’s encounter with philosopher Martin Heidegger in the German village of Todtnauberg in Schwarzwald (Black Forest) in 1967. Only Celan’s poem remains, along with the possibility of an endless narrative. Endless because everything was to prevent from such a meeting between the German philosopher who tied himself to the Nazi party in 1933 and the Jewish poet who was imprisoned in a work camp and made orphan by the war. And yet on July 24th, 1967, they were brought together to give a poetry lecture in Freiburg which was followed by a private invitation of Heidegger to his hut in Todtnauberg.

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