Paul Celan. Biography of the singer's youth

The greatest value of this biography lies in its strictly documentary nature. The skin, the skin detail spirals here into memory, reflection, “knots” of people’s memory from the close ostracism of the young Celan, which foreshadows the authenticity of his life, to work with his reliable testimony about the poet, a symbol of the scientific sum authenticity and historical reliability. Over 50 people from this stake – relatives, friends, school and student friends, the poet’s friends’ farms – were the objects of the author’s study. Before the appearance of this book, the successors of Celan’s creativity would only be satisfied with the “dry frame of known biographical dates.” To the fullest extent of Israel Halfen, the young rocks of the poet stand in all their plasticity, the beginnings and the fullness, and the doors to the Celan world open wide before the Ukrainian reader.