Fadensonnen / Fibrous Suns (bilingual)

This was also confirmed by contemporary literary critics, who after its release appeared rather helpless and responded with terms such as "subjective encryption," "esoteric secret language," and "complete hermeticism," among others. In this work, Celan’s search for the absolute poem is expressed in an especially extreme form, yet perhaps on this path he indeed penetrated into unexplored realms of language and reached the extreme limits of poetic utterance, which for us only faintly glow in the inaccessible distance. In its density of imagery and conciseness, this is already the poetic language of the future.