Shadows of Poetry and Love Between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan

Abstract

This article deals with the relationship between the Romanian poet Paul Celan and the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann. We see in their poems elements of the work Song of Songs to trace poles of meaning and opposition. In our digression, the sensitivity and richness of depth in the face of a feeling much greater than what the authors understand become present in their works. We also observe the transformations of the biographical self towards the lyrical self in their productions, with Paul Celan's adoption of silence. Ingeborg Bachmann, on the other hand, lives utopia with emphasis. Finally, the expression of tension in her personal relationships also reflected the thickening of an increasingly obscure language. Her poetic allegories were thought of by authors such as Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, identified with elements dependent on the search for otherness, a strong characteristic in their works.