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| | Paul Celan |
 | | Paul Celan (1920-70), the pseudonym of Paul Antschel, was born in Czernovitz, in Romania, of German-speaking Jewish parents, on November 23, 1920. |
 | | War intervened and Celan returned to Romania, where his parents died under the Nazi occupation, and Celan was interned for 18 months before escaping to the Red Army. |
 | | Celan still wrote in German, but it was now a reworked, enigmatic and self-questioning German, lapsing into silence or repeating itself like a psalm that will reveal its meaning only with harsh experience, in the eternity of God's time. |
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