Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Art Gallery - Schwarze Milch/Black Milk - Update

Wow Edgar! if this were facebook one could give you a "thumbs up" with many
exclamation points!!!

all best

Sylvia

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Merle Kastner <merlek_at_videotron.ca> wrote:

> Dear Edgar,
>
> Congratulations - this is a well deserved honor!
> And thanks to Dr. Felstiner.
>
> Merle Kastner
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
> To: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu**>; "John Felstiner" <
> felstine_at_stanford.edu>
> Cc: "Irene Fishler" <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>; "Joyce Field" <
> jfield_at_nlci.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 4:06 PM
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Art Gallery - Schwarze Milch/Black Milk -
> Update
>
>
>
> Czernowitzers and Art Lovers...
>
> I frankly acknowledge, that I'm honored and grateful at the same time, that
> Stanford University Professor Emeritus John Felstiner, THE leading expert
> worldwide for Paul Celan researches, visited the Solo Exhibition "Schwarze
> Milch/Black Milk" and wrote to me:
>
> "Thanks for your work here, Edgar! On the Czernowitz show I was alerted to,
> I tried to answer 'Varske''s comment that my translation is incomplete. ...
> It may seem incomplete, but actually it's not, it's deliberate. All the
> German original (except "Deutschland") is translated at first. Then
> gradually, Celan's key phrases metamorphose back into his own voice. (See my
> chapter on this poem in 'Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew.')"
>
> I wish, I could appreciate John Felstiner's translation of "Todesfuge" to
> the full extent, but as a non-native speaker I cannot. But - beyond any
> doubt - John Felstiner's authority on poetry is breathtaking, as we learn
> from his faculty profile:
>
> http://english.stanford.edu/**bio.php?name_id=49<http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=49>
>
> "...after teaching at the Hebrew University in Israel (1974-75), he began
> studying the literature, art, photography, and music that emerged from the
> European Jewish catastrophe. His book on the German-speaking Jewish poet,
> Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (1995), was a Finalist for the National Book
> Critics Circle award and the MLA's James Russell Lowell prize, and won the
> Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism."
>
> John, I published your comment at http://czernowitzart.blogspot.**
> com/2011/04/paul-celan-john-**felstiner.html<http://czernowitzart.blogspot.com/2011/04/paul-celan-john-felstiner.html>and I'm going to read your chapter on 'Deathfugue' in 'Paul Celan: Poet,
> Survivor, Jew.'. In addition I'd like to introduce our "Ehpes Discussion
> Group" to you:
>
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/**aboutus/ehpesintro.html<http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/aboutus/ehpesintro.html>
>
> Thank you all for your vivid interest (250 page loads and 100 visitors
> within 24 hours)!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
>
> http://hauster.blogspot.com/
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