Considerations on the Speech "The meridian" (Der Meridian), by Paul Celan

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Jorge Benedito de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14541
• topic: Meridiano; Paul Celan; Contra-palavra.; Meridian; Paul Celan; Counter-word

This article deals with some aspects of the speech "The Meridian" (Der Meridian), of the Romanian poet Paul Celan, trying to emphasize, mainly, three central aspects of speech, namely: the debate on the situation of the poetry after Auschwitz; the presence and encounter of the poetic with the 'other', and finally the date (the Schibboleth) that (de)marks the poet in dealing with barbarism and, consequently, with poetry. The hypothesis is that "The meridian" not only constitutes the centerpiece of a supposed celanian poetic, but also highlights the composition of the counter-word (Gegenwort) as a poetic language that confronts the reality fractured by the negativity of the massacre committed at Auschwitz.