Räsänen, Pajari: Encounters with Paul Celan's Poetry (E-Book)

<p><span>Encounters with Paul Celan's Poetry: The Other's Time</span><span> consists of encounters: with poetry, with its readers, and with the other that poetry seeks to encounter. What does it mean, when Celan insists that every real encounter, every true encounter happens in memory of the poetic encounter, the secret of the encounter? This book presents close readings of various poems, often attempting textual and intellectual dialogue with philosophers who read Celan or who were read by Celan, such as Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, Edmund Husserl, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.</span></p>

Encounters with Paul Celan's Poetry: The Other's Timeconsists of encounters: with poetry, with its readers, and with the other that poetry seeks to encounter. What does it mean, when Celan insists that every real encounter, every true encounter happens in memory of the poetic encounter, the secret of the encounter?

Pajari Räsänen teaches comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.