From threshold to threshold

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First edition (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1955)

Von Schwelle zu Schwelle is a volume of poetry by Paul Celan published in 1955 .

Content and structure

The volume, published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in Stuttgart , contains 47 poems that were written in Paris between 1952 and 1954 . It is dedicated to Gisèle Celan-Lestrange and divided into three cycles, which are entitled Seven Roses later (18 poems), With changing key (16 poems) and Inselhin (14 poems).

First cycle: seven roses later

  • I heard say
  • In the late red
  • to shine
  • Together
  • Playing with axes
  • The heavy
  • A grain of sand
  • Strand
  • From the sea
  • Duality
  • Distant
  • Where there is ice
  • From dark to dark
  • In the shape of a boar
  • Breton beach
  • Well
  • To two
  • The guest

Second cycle: with a different key

  • Gravestone for Francois
  • Grafted onto the eye
  • Who counted the hours for us
  • Assisi
  • Tonight too
  • In front of a candle
  • With a changing key
  • Here
  • Still life
  • And the beautiful
  • Woody
  • Evening of words
  • The dump
  • I know
  • The fields
  • souvenir

Third cycle: Inselhin

  • Pursed at night
  • Eye of time
  • Wing night
  • Which of the stones you lift
  • In memoriam Paul Eluard
  • Shibboleth
  • We see you
  • cenotaph
  • You speak too
  • With red lips
  • Argumentum e silentio
  • The winemakers
  • Island way

Expenses (selection)

  • First edition: From threshold to threshold. Poems. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Tübingen edition: From threshold to threshold. Preliminary stages - text genesis - final version. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 3-518-41371-6

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