Celan, Paul
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...destruction of the world as he knew it, as in his most famous poem, "Deathfugue." Celan was strongly influenced by Friedrich...Mandelstam . Frequently dissonant and freighted with pain, his poems are richly allusive and complicated. Celan was also a masterful translator of such authors as Shakespeare, Valery, and Dickinson. He lived in Paris from 1948 until his suicide...