Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan

Feauturing the first complete English translation of “Shibboleth for Paul Celan” by Jacques Derrida. The cruical role of Paul Celan in postwar literature is widely recognized among European scholars, but has been addressed only scarcley in the Anglo-American academy. In World Traces Aris Fioretos attempts to redress that imbalance, bringing together thirteen expert readers in the most extensive English-language critical collection on Celan yet published. The volume begins with the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida’s book -length essay, “Shibboleth for Paul Celan.” Chapters by Otto Pöggeler, Dennis J. Schmidt, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe then explore the relationship of poetry and philosophy in Celan’s work. Christopher Fynsk, Joel Golb, and Werner Hamacher discuss the interrelation of poetry and poetics, and Anders Olsson, Hans-Jost Frey, Thomas Pepper, and Leonard Olschner treat the implications of Celan’s practice of translation.