The Poetics of Dialogue. Paul Celan’s Work as Intertext: A Monograph (in Ukrainian)

This monograph by literary scholar, Germanist, and translator Petro Rykhlo introduces readers to the polyphonic structure of Paul Celan’s poetry. His work is shaped by multilayered intellectual and emotional palimpsests, where beneath the surface of the author’s text lies the presence of other texts—serving as impulses, catalysts, associative parallels, or polemical counterparts. The book reconstructs not only the aesthetic genesis of Celan’s poetry but also its uncompromising confrontation with its epoch—a time marked by the collapse of humanist ideals and an unprecedented moral decline, tragically embodied in the Holocaust. Celan’s poetry emerges as a powerful expression of the modern era’s spiritual struggles, making it one of the most profound lyrical responses to contemporary existential crises. Intended for literary scholars, philosophers, cultural theorists, students, and anyone interested in the development of world literature.