![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His second book, Mohn und Gedaechtnis ( Poppy and Memory), however, garnered tremendous acclaim and helped to establish his reputation. ![]() It received very little critical attention. They had a son, Eric, in 1955.Ĭelan’s first book was published in 1947. He took his Licence des Lettres in 1950 and, in 1952, he married the graphic artist Gisele de Lestrange. He lived briefly in Vienna before settling in Paris in 1948 to study German philology and literature. In 1947, he settled on the pseudonym “Celan”-an anagram of Ancel, the Romanian form of his surname. He also began to publish his own poems and translations under a series of pseudonyms. He worked as a reader in a publishing house and as a translator. In 1945, Celan moved to Bucharest and became friends with many of the leading Romanian writers of the time. His parents were deported and eventually died in Nazi labor camps Celan himself was interned for eighteen months before escaping to the Red Army. He studied medicine in Paris in 1938, but returned to Romania shortly before the outbreak of World War II. The son of German-speaking Jews, Celan grew up speaking several languages, including Romanian, Russian, and French. Paul Antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Celan, was born in Czernovitz, in Romania, on November 23, 1920. ![]()
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