Tyler Cowen recommends Paul Celan biography for summer reading
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Free Press columnist Tyler Cowen has nominated a biography of poet Paul Celan for a summer reading list. The book, Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno, is described as a first-rate biography of one of the finest poets of the 20th century. Cowen states that Celan’s poetic topic of the Holocaust is of the most importance, and that Celan decided it was possible to write poetry after it, contrary to Theodor Adorno. The biography covers Celan’s mother being killed in the Holocaust and his suicide by drowning in the Seine in 1970. Cowen found the book gripping from start to finish, calling it absorbing with an accessible translation. The article notes that the list includes many other quality selections.
What’s reported
Tyler Cowen is a Free Press columnist.
He nominated Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno for a summer reading list.
The book is a biography of poet Paul Celan.
Cowen considers Celan one of the finest poets of the 20th century.
Celan’s mother was killed in the Holocaust.
Celan died by suicide in 1970, drowning in the Seine.
Cowen found the book gripping and absorbing with an accessible translation.
Anna Arno has also written on Paula Modersohn-Becker and Konstanty Jeleński, and translated Henry James into Polish.
The article states the list has many other quality selections.
Key figures
Tyler Cowen, Free Press columnist
Paul Celan, poet
Anna Arno, author
Theodor Adorno, referenced figure
Sources: marginalrevolution.com
