POESIA DE TESTEMUNHO EM PAUL CELAN: OS ECOS DA BARBÁRIE

POETRY OF TESTIMONY BY PAUL CELAN: THE ECHOES OF BARBARITY

Abstract

The present article brings in its approaches the analysis of the way in which Paul Celan’s poetry presents itself as a place of testimony of one of the most expressive experiences of terror of the 20th century: the Holocaust. Of the Jewish origin, this poet was a prisoner of the Nazis in the death camps, he had experienced the pain of losing his parents, also prisoners. Thus, memory, melancholy and autobiographical traits intertwine, under the impacts of the catastrophe in Celan’s writings, often marked by the lack of meaning for human existence and the need to not let the Holocaust – responsible for taking the lives of millions of people and cause untold trauma to survivors – be forgotten in the course of history.