Re: [Cz-L] The Genesis of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge"

[Please post in Plain Text in the future --thanks]

Dear Edgar,
I compared the texts of articles by Konstantin Simonov in the newspaper and=
 in
the brochure, which Josif had sent.
These texts are almost identical, except for an episode about a man who cal=
led
himself Leon Blum. Simonov wrote later that it was a mistake, and that Leon
Blum was at that time in Buchenwald camp. This is probably why this episode=
 was
excluded from the text of the brochure.

Sincerely,
Galina.

2014/1/6 Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>

> Dear friends,
>
> First of all I'm thrilled by and deeply grateful for the thoughtfulness o=
f
> your comments/contributions on "The Genesis of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge".
> Some additional remarks:
>
> Galina...
> The "Red Star"("Krasnaya Zvezda") editions dated August 10, 11, 12 - 1944
> represent an amazing resource. Thank you so much. Once again I desperatel=
y
> wish I spoke Russian, but unfortunately I don't. Therefore, please let me
> ask you in addition: Do these three articles correspond to the Constantin
> Simonov's leaflet from 1944, which - thanks to Iosif - I could add as fif=
th
> version (Russian) to my previous posting?
>
>
> http://hauster.blogspot.nl/2013/05/the-genesis-of-paul-celans-todesfuge.h=
tml
>
> Download at: http://hauster.de/data/simonovru.pdf
>
> Boris...
> Of course, you are perfectly right, "it would be however hard or
> impossible to prove that Paul Celan actually met Simonov in Chernowitz",
> but such a meeting was technically possible and a chance of "1 to some 20=
0"
> as suggested by Berti is not too bad. In addition, Paul Celan effected th=
e
> translation Russian - Romanian of Constantin Simonov's drama "The Russian
> Question". A clue?! Thank you so much for joining this discussion and
> particularly for your pointer to Simonov's report on his travel through
> Czernowitz!
>
> Iosif...
> Great contribution, as always, thank you! As mentioned, I've updated my
> posting (see above) by introducing your Russian version of the pamphlet a=
nd
> in addition I'm going to trace the Romanian edition as well. No doubt
> about, the parallels between "Todesfuge" and "ER" are obvious and most
> probably a result of a kind of a literary competion and of poetic
> experiments, which were very much "in vogue" among "our" Czernowitzer poe=
ts
> Celan, Wei=C3=9Fglas, Ausl=C3=A4nder, Kittner and many more.
>
> On the other hand, for me it's perfectly clear, that Simonov's "all the
> morning, all day, all the evening, and all the night" finds it's
> correspondence in Celan's "Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening =
-
> we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night". What do we learn=
,
> dear Iosif, from the Russian version on "bands" or the "radio", which
> "played" or "blared" via loudspeakers?
>
> Berti...
> Fabulous Yiddish-German translation, thank you so much! I read - in Germa=
n
> - Simonov's report on his travel through Czernowtz, as indicated by Boris
> and I think you are perfectly right concerning Simonov's mixture of facts
> and fiction. His multi-volume war diaries as well as his eyewitness - in
> fact rather earwitness - reports are nevertheless valuable rescources for
> all of us.
>
> Warmest wishes to all of you and - assuming your permission - I'm going t=
o
> add your comments to the posting as well.
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands

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