Voci di Celan: arca degli elementi

Celan’s Voices: An Arch of the Elements · Celan is too often cited as a poet of silence. But he can be read and heard as a composer of voices out of destruction. This essay proposes a reading of the cycle entitled Voices by Paul Celan as a set of polytextual motets constructed «a cappella» and performed in the devastated theater of the world. Each voice is diferent, but elements of repetition and variation weave the voices together, leaving them always distinguishable. Celan’s musicality does not descend from harmony but explores, developing them, the possibilities of composing (in the ways of entwining, weav- ing, taking in, collecting, repeating) what is disparate and scattered, residual and karst, damaged and no longer fgured.