Poetik der Transformation: Paul Celan – Übersetzer und übersetzt

A collection of analyses of Paul Celan's work as a translator is supplemented here by studies on and by translators of Celan's works into other languages. The intriguing quality of this confrontation lies in the light it trains on the necessity of subjecting the language and the interpretation of a poem to a process of transformation extending to the very terms in which they are cast.