Agenda

Paul Célan, poesia i holocaust

Lecture by Robert Caner

Tuesday, February 20,

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

The conference cycle "Jewish authors of the 20th century" aims to present different literary personalities of the twentieth century, which in some way (by birth, formation, culture, affiliation, or negation) have had a relationship with Judaism. We want to present them from one of their works, or from his set of texts, books, writings, and from the perspective of analysis of "Judaism" or Jewish culture and all that implies.

Paul Celan (Romania, 1920 - Paris, 1970). German poet of Jewish origin. He initiated studies of medicine and of Romance Literatures in the University of Chernivtsi, that had to interrupt in 1942, due to the German invasion of Romania. Closed in a concentration camp, he managed to flee to the USSR and remained there until the end of World War II.

Robert Caner studied German Philology, Literary Theory and Philosophy at the Universities of Barcelona, ​​Groningen and Munich. Between 1992 and 2001 he was a professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Pompeu Fabra University. He is currently professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Barcelona. He edited and translated into Catalan, Fragments by Novalis, and Notes de literatura by Theodor W. Adorno, and in Spanish, Estudios sobre Fichte y otros escritos by Novalis. He also published several works on hermeneutics, critical theory, and early Romanticism.

Free activity

Organized by: Institute of Nahmanides Studies (Patronat Call de Girona) and Ferrater Mora Chair of Contemporary Thought (University of Girona. Address: Sant Llorenç street no number