Conversation in the Mountains: Collected Prose of Paul Celan

The essential prose works of the great Paul Celan, beautifully translated by Rosmarie Waldrop

“I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens.” So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes: “Edgar Jené and the Dream about the Dream,” “Backlight,” “The Meridian,” and the piece which Celan himself deemed his most important, “Conversation in the Mountains.” George Steiner wrote in The New Yorker t...