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The Correspondence of Paul Celan and Ilana Shmueli
Paul Celan, Ilana Shmueli; Norman Manea, intro.; Norman Manea, contrib.; Susan H. Gillespie, trs.



In me is hellish emptiness, Ilana, but my bones say: we are thinking.

It can be assumed that I will live to be 100 – and why not?

Understand, please, that I have to speak this way too, at some time.

Be thanked, thanked

Much stillness, much truth, much understanding, much –


Paul


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