Esther Cameron


Against Time

 

Essays on Paul Celan, 1976-2004

 

 

Acknowledgments:

"'Over the Thorn': The Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan" was published in TIKKUN.  "A Note on 'The Meridian'" was published in THE CHICAGO REVIEW.  Part of "Protocol of an Encounter" was included in the memoir Tsade: Nituach 'Atsmi shel Golem (c, or The Autoanalysis of a Golem), published by HaKibbutz HaMeuchad.  "Poet of the Imperative" is a translation of an essay that appeared in the BULLETIN DES LEO-BAECK-INSTITUTS.  "Language and the Inhuman" appeared in DAPPIM, "The Distant Earth" in SULFUR, and "Against Time" in HUNGER. 

 

Table of Contents

To the Reader

"Over the Thorn": The Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan

A Note on "The Meridian"

Protocol of an Encounter

Language and the Inhuman

The Distant Earth

Secret Monarchs: Landauer's Anarchism and Celan's Poetics

Against Time

The Door Into the Law