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Paul celan meets samuel beckett.(Biography)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20040701
Author:Felstiner, John

HE DOES NOT MEET HIM.

Living alone in March 1970 (with never-healing wounds) on Avenue Emile Zola just across from Pont Mirabeau, apart from his wife Gisele and son Eric, this "true-stammered mouth," survivor of "the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech," has recently returned from a fortnight in Israel, his first visit, elated and drawn to move there but fearful of yet again losing his German mother tongue, his beloved mother's tongue seized as if overnight by her murderers. Franz Wurm, a poetfriend in Paris, invites him one afternoon to come along and meet Beckett, ...

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