size: 245 x 314mm
softcover
240 pages
A collection of works by French artist Stéphan Crasneanski. The book was published based on the radio play "The Encounter," produced by the author and French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy for France Culture, a French public radio channel.
The subject of this radio play was the encounter between the Jewish poet Paul Celan and the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The two are said to have met in Tothnauberg, in Schwarzwald, Germany (a mountainous region in southern Germany meaning "the Black Forest"), but no photographs, testimony or records of the two remained, and only poems by Zellan remained. The poem left behind by Tseran encompasses the possibilities for an endless story. This is because Heidegger joined the Nazi Party in 1993, and Tseran was imprisoned in a Jewish concentration camp and became a war orphan, and because of these circumstances, it was impossible for the two to meet. However, on July 24, 1967, they were invited to a poetry lecture held in the southwestern German town of Freiburg, and after that, Heidegger invited Zern to his own Tothnauberg hut.
This work, which is also involved in the theory of human pronunciation, was created in collaboration with Nancy, not just in Strasbourg and Blackzwald, where the author visited regularly since his childhood. The author walked the path that Tseran and Heidegger would have gone back and forth between them. By identifying the silhouettes of the immobilized trees, we traced the distance they felt when they met and the terrain of wandering. Nancy's constant response to the absence of the author's voice led to a reciprocating letter between visual and sound, and is shown in the book along with radio transcripts.
Other features include a preface by Luxembourgian-American poet and essayist Pierre Joris, text by American musician, writer and poet Patti Smith, and essays by Jean-Luc Nancy.
by Stéphan Crasneanski
The subject of this radio play was the encounter between the Jewish poet Paul Celan and the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The two are said to have met in Tothnauberg, in Schwarzwald, Germany (a mountainous region in southern Germany meaning "the Black Forest"), but no photographs, testimony or records of the two remained, and only poems by Zellan remained. The poem left behind by Tseran encompasses the possibilities for an endless story. This is because Heidegger joined the Nazi Party in 1993, and Tseran was imprisoned in a Jewish concentration camp and became a war orphan, and because of these circumstances, it was impossible for the two to meet. However, on July 24, 1967, they were invited to a poetry lecture held in the southwestern German town of Freiburg, and after that, Heidegger invited Zern to his own Tothnauberg hut.
This work, which is also involved in the theory of human pronunciation, was created in collaboration with Nancy, not just in Strasbourg and Blackzwald, where the author visited regularly since his childhood. The author walked the path that Tseran and Heidegger would have gone back and forth between them. By identifying the silhouettes of the immobilized trees, we traced the distance they felt when they met and the terrain of wandering. Nancy's constant response to the absence of the author's voice led to a reciprocating letter between visual and sound, and is shown in the book along with radio transcripts.
Other features include a preface by Luxembourgian-American poet and essayist Pierre Joris, text by American musician, writer and poet Patti Smith, and essays by Jean-Luc Nancy.
by Stéphan Crasneanski