Czernowitzers...
Believe me or not, the Book of the Month, April 2018 is a real gem - even though it may not seem so immediately. Pierre Joris, the Luxembourg-American poet and author of "Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan" stated: "Celan had met the Surrealist poet Ion Caraion back in 1946; a year later Caraion [together with the literary critic, journalist and poet Virgil Ierunca] would print Celan’s first published poems in German in the Bucharest Magazine Agora."
Back in 2013 I've succeeded to aquire this extremely rare original volume (no. 772/1026) of AGORA, and now it's available for download at our Czernowitz Book Corner:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2018/04/agora.html
AGORA was a fascinating multicultural (Romanian, Italian, German, French, Russian) literary avant-garde experiment in post-WW II Romania. From the ashes of WW2 it stood for an atmosphere of new beginning among poets and artists, many of them Jewish, who had succeeded to survive the Holocaust. It was printed under the auspices of the King Michael I Foundation. A few months later, on December 30, 1947 King Michael I was forced at gunpoint to abdicate and on January 3, 1948 he left the country; so the first edition of AGORA remained the only one as well. BTW, Alfred [Margul-]Sperber, another Bukovinian, is among the authors and translators.
Enjoy the reading and please don't miss the insightful comment of our fellow member, Prof. Bianca Rosenthal, author of "Pathways to Paul Celan: A History of Critical Responses as a Chorus of Discordant Voices", at the posting above!
Edgar Hauster
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Received on 2018-04-28 17:11:31