Collected Prose Stad van licht en steen / The way wine comes

/ The way wine comes at a table in a wood

Marília Garcia (Rio de Janeiro

I wanted to be a durable example of that fragile culture

of lonesomeness as well as the desire to be alone

Collected Prose Stad van licht en steen / The way wine comesPaul Celan Paul Celan (192070) stands as one of the greatest post war European poets, a writer whose painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to define the response of poetry in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Celans prose is as thought provoking as, and less familiar than, his poetry. The writings and aphorisms on poetry and art illuminate the sources of his language: he explores the condition