Bertrand Badiou

Bertrand Badiou, born in 1957, is the co-director of the Paul Celan Department at the École normale supérieure in Paris, editor of Celan’s works and letters in Germany (Suhrkamp Verlag) and France (Éditions du Seuil). Together with Eric Celan he manages the poet’s estate.

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2023

Bertrand BadiouYear of Publication: 2023

Paul Celan

Due to the richness and novelty of the sources, this biography is the first to provide comprehensive information about Paul Celan’s entire life in text and image. It thus enters a field of tension and faces a twofold challenge: for Celan resolutely rejected the biographical, especially the biographical approach to his poetry, and was also decidedly sceptical about the medium of...

Year of Publication: 2018

Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2018

Poems

For Paul Celan reading was always an experience as well: the books, journals, and daily newspapers he read were as much a source of his poems as personal encounters and political events. When a...

Rights sold to:

USA (FSG), Spanish world rights (Trotta), Portuguese rights (Assírio & Alvim), France (Seuil), Italy (Mondadori), Denmark (Rosinante), Sweden (Ellerströms), Norway (Kolon), Korea (Munhakdongne), Malaysia (Kala), Poland (A5), Slovenia (Beletrina), Ukraine (Knihy XXI)

Year of Publication: 2008

Ingeborg Bachmann , Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2008

Herzzeit

»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio

The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Portuguese rights (Antígona), Chinese simplex rights (China Renmin UP), Russia (Ad marginem), France (Seuil), Italy (Nottetempo), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden (Ellerströms), Japan (Seidosha), Poland (A5), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Romania (Art), Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi), Ukraine (Knihy XXI), Georgia (Ibis)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Fondo Cultura), Croatia (OceanMore)