{"product_id":"conversation-in-the-mountains-collected-prose-of-paul-celan","title":"Conversation in the Mountains: Collected Prose of Paul Celan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes: \"Edgar Jene 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that Celan's prose was \"transforming the landscape of poetic theory and of the philosophy of language.\" This collection of essays, speeches, 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.\" Perhaps through these rare prose texts we may find the key to what we missed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Small format perpabck\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Directions\u003cbr\u003ePages: 76\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0811240525\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780811240529\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Celan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53627237794058,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/71S4vAoqGhL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80_AIweblab1381794_T1.jpg?v=1788519509","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/conversation-in-the-mountains-collected-prose-of-paul-celan","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}