Paul Celan - Allerseelen / All Souls (Day) - cc English, Türk, Deutsch

Paul Celan (23 November 1920 - c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in the former Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine). He changed his name to “Paul Celan“. His mother was an avid reader of German literature who insisted German be the language of the house. He became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. (Wikipedia) Celan is notoriously difficult to read, and difficult to translate. Translation of the poem: cited f
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