Nobody’s Rose / Die Niemandsrose (bilingual)

Like the collection Language Lattices, it contains a clearly expressed poetological program, which is at the same time a project of being. The construction of a new reality occurs with the involvement of existential questions and the problematic of cultural identity, primarily the suffering caused by the Holocaust, and the discovery of Russian literature, the embodiment of which for him was the Russian-Jewish poet Osip Mandelstam. The cosmic dimensions of Celan's universe are expressed, among other things, in numerous intertextual connections that show him as a poet who is extremely open to the world. The book design uses Helga von Löwenich's painting "Nobody's Rose" for the collection of poems of the same name by Paul Celan (watercolor with pigment paints on handmade French torchon paper, 30 x 21 cm, 2015).