The Historical Background of the Poet paul celan's Creation of Death

Death fugue, as Celan's famous work, is an unavoidable poem, whether it is about Celan himself or postwar European poetry. It artistically reproduces the tragic fate of Jews in Nazi concentration camps and shows that some people who have experienced the deepest suffering have no complaints before God. It is known as "the most indelible poem of the twentieth century"

The reason why Death Fugue became a "poem of the times" is also closely related to the western ideological situation and the attention of western intellectuals after World War II. 1949, Adorno, a German Jewish philosopher, proposed that "it is barbaric and impossible to write poetry after Auschwitz". This not only raised the possibility of post-war western art, but more importantly, "Auschwitz" was raised as an insurmountable major "obstacle" for the first time. Auschwitz was originally a small place in Poland, where Nazi Germany established a concentration camp and millions of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and Slavs were slaughtered. It has become the most cruel and dark mystery in modern human history, not only as a symbol of the Holocaust and genocide, but also accompanied by people's thinking and criticism of all forms of alienation in modern society.

Paul. Paul celan (1920- 1970) is a German Jewish poet who has exerted a wide influence in the world since the second half of the 20th century. George steiner, a critic, called Celan's poems "the highest peak of German poetry (perhaps modern Europe)", while Vendler, a professor at Harvard University and a poetry critic, called Celan "the greatest poet since Ye Zhi". Now, in the world, he is recognized as the greatest German poet after Rilke.