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Baer's justification for juxtaposing 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire and 20th-century German-language lyricist Paul Celan is that together they symbolize the beginning and the end of what he terms "our modernity" in poetry. Additionally, they are significantly related to each other; Celan directly invokes Baudelaire as a precursor whose lyrics influenced him to meditate and testify to the traumas, shocks, and horrors that he personally experienced as a Holocaust survivor and amply reflected in his poems. In two separate parts, each dedicated to one of the poets, Baer (German, NYU) presents new readings of their work. His literary and sometimes philosophical approach draws on such fields as trauma studies and historical research to analyze Baudelaire's personal take on the agony of everyday life (as expressed in the lyrics of "The Stranger" and "The Flowers of Evil," for instance) and Celan's ordeals during the Holocaust ("Todesfuge," possibly Celan's most famous poem, describes the Jewish experience under Nazism). This is a great addition to literature collections and necessary for all academic libraries. [Baer is an LJ reviewer.DEd.]DAli Houissa, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.
-DAli Houissa, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
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“This innovative study of the works of Baudelaire and Celan opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture.”—Germanic Notes and Reviews
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  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804739277
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804739276
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Trauma, indeed!, May 26, 2003
By "boriszeitlin" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan (Cultural Memory in the Present) (Hardcover)
Adorned with a title that sounds like it was borrowed from Enya's last album, Ulrich Baer's derivative pastiche "Remnants of Song" is appallingly preachy and reductive, politically dubious in the extreme, mind-numbingly repetitive, and written in a style that lowers English critical prose to new levels of lumbering inelegance. For something worthwhile on Baudelaire, look at work by Susan Blood, Ross Chambers, Sartre . . . or anyone else, for that matter! "Remnants of Song" raises (lowers?) the bar in the writing-the-disaster department -- my nominee for the 2003 Residual Culture Award.
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5.0 out of 5 stars baudelaire is brought out of darkness into the light, October 15, 2002
By Jack Kirven (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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when i say baudelaire is brought into the light, i mean that his work is described lucidly and criticized empathetically. the author took special pains to understand the conditions in which baudelaire wrote, and sought to bring fresh perspectives to his analyses of the works sited. i agree with another reviewer of this work who commented that his favorite section concerns the sky -- the treatment of the horizon, frames, and clouds is wonderfully clever. as a dancer and choreographer who enjoys using the imagery of poetry i found this to be one of the most helpful discussions of baudelaire's work available to me. i believe this text would be useful not only to students and lovers of poetry, but also to other artists who would like a multi-faceted reading of some very complicated and layered poems. i must confess that i did not read the sections pertaining to celan, because i am specifically focusing my personal research on baudelaire. i cannot speak for the quality of the discussions in the latter half of the book, but i can highly recommend this text to those interested in baudelaire.
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4 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Almost Traumatically Beautiful, April 11, 2001
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In short, this is the best book ever written on Baudelaire and Celan. Baer articulates very complex and subtle ideas, but his prose is clear and inviting. This is for those who are interested in not only these particular poets, but also issues of "memory" and just "poetry" at large. I particulary love the third chapter "Blindness and the Sky" and the fifth chapter "Landscape and Memory." Considering that poetry is on the verge of extinction in our contemporary, it may be urgent to read this book right now.
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