Hölderlin, Celan, and the “Experience with Language”
We speak of Friedrich Hölderlin’s “drafts” and “fragments” as if he never quite succeeded as a poet, but perhaps the point is that, as for Paul Celan, “das Gedicht ist nicht Zeitlos.” It is time-bound, in the sense that temporality has the poem always under way, and in a double sense: (1) dialogical...
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| Published in: | MLN 2020-04, Vol.135 (3), p.679-698 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | We speak of Friedrich Hölderlin’s “drafts” and “fragments” as if he never quite succeeded as a poet, but perhaps the point is that, as for Paul Celan, “das Gedicht ist nicht Zeitlos.” It is time-bound, in the sense that temporality has the poem always under way, and in a double sense: (1) dialogically, as an (unanswered) appeal, and (2) anarchically, that is, outside the philosophical progress of intention, designation, predication, induction, narrative, or any of the forms of systematic construction. One has to imagine a time inside of time, or what the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas calls l’entre-temps, the “between-times” or interminable “meanwhile” in which the present recedes into a past that never was, and the future, like the Messiah, never arrives. |
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| ISSN: | 0026-7910 1080-6598 1080-6598 |