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Stéphane Mosès' 'Approches de Paul Celan' Reviewed

publication · 2026-04-24

A review in artpress (issue 430, February 2016, p. 86) examines Stéphane Mosès' book 'Approches de Paul Celan', published by Verdier. The book addresses a question Mosès once asked Celan as a young man: how could he write in the language of his executioners? Mosès spent his career seeking the answer.

Key facts

  • artpress issue 430, February 2016, page 86
  • Book: 'Approches de Paul Celan' by Stéphane Mosès
  • Publisher: Verdier
  • Mosès asked Celan about writing in German, the language of the perpetrators
  • The question was posed when Mosès was very young

Entities

Artists

  • Stéphane Mosès
  • Paul Celan

Institutions

  • artpress
  • Verdier

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