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Reflections of Reading: On Paul Celan and Peter Szondi

Without rhythm, but constantly

Rarely is the weight evenly balanced within a correspondence. Out of the difference between the partners, the stronger one takes charge. "Thou"—Du—becomes a means to develop one's own subjectivity. In the letters of poets since modernity, this general feature of correspondence came to acquire an artistic quality. The foundation of modernist aesthetics rested upon the conviction that only in art could one fashion a life by giving it sense and direction. Letters thus became one more means employed by artists to creatively shape language, and these artists not only grew stronger in their own domain but...