{"id":141,"date":"2015-07-05T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-07-05T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:20:54","slug":"from-paula-celans-ansprache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"from Paula Celan&#8217;s &#8220;Ansprache&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Only one thing remained close and reachable amid all losses: language.<\/div>\n<div>Yes, language. \u00c2\u00a0In spite of everything it remained unlost [<em>unverloren<\/em>]. \u00c2\u00a0But it had to go through its own lack of answers [<em>Antwortlosigkeit<\/em>], through terrifying silence [<em>furchtbares Verstummen<\/em>], through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech. \u00c2\u00a0It went through and gave no words for what happened; but it went through this event [<em>Geschehen<\/em>]. \u00c2\u00a0It went through and could resurface, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enriched\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by it all.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0In this language, I tried, during those years and the years after, to write poems: in order to speak, to orient myself, to find out where I was, where I was being taken [<em>wohin es mit mir wollte<\/em>], to sketch for myself a reality [<em>Wirklichkeit<\/em>].<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0It meant, as you see, event, movement, being on the way, it was an attempt to find direction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paul Celan, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ansprache,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 128<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one thing remained close and reachable amid all losses: language. Yes, language. \u00c2\u00a0In spite of everything it remained unlost [unverloren]. \u00c2\u00a0But it had to go through its own lack of answers [Antwortlosigkeit], through terrifying silence [furchtbares Verstummen], through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech. \u00c2\u00a0It went through and gave no words for what happened; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,16,45,21,41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atrocity","category-ethics","category-language","category-modernity","category-translation","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}