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"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 that Celan's prose was 'transforming the landscape of poetic theory and of the philosophy of language.' This collection of essays, speeches, and letters (as well as notes on Alexander Blok and Osip Mandelstam) is a great gift to readers and to anyone who wishes to understand the twentieth century. As the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer wrote, 'Paul Celan's poems reach us, but we miss them.'" --
