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<p>The game, with its creative potential and rich semantics, has repeatedly animated writers’ imagination, motivating them to imagine new worlds or to present the experience of the existent world according to other rules. Beyond this, games have been perceived as a form of transposing traumatic experiences or an expression of heteronomy in man’s relation with destiny. The dice game appears in Paul Celan’s early poetry, but it is more present in late poems. The present paper analyses the semantics of the dice game in Celan’s poetry, trying to evidentiate its ontological and poetical values.</p>
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The game, with its creative potential and rich semantics, has repeatedly animated writers’ imagination, motivating them to imagine new worlds or to present the experience of the existent world according to other rules. Beyond this, games have been perceived as a form of transposing traumatic experiences or an expression of heteronomy in man’s relation with destiny. The dice game appears in Paul Celan’s early poetry, but it is more present in late poems. The present paper analyses the semantics of the dice game in Celan’s poetry, trying to evidentiate its ontological and poetical values.

<italic>„tu das zum Bild, das uns heimwürfelt“</italic>. Zur Denkfigur des Würfelspiels in Celans Dichtung

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. Zur Denkfigur des Würfelspiels in Celans Dichtung

The game, with its creative potential and rich semantics, has repeatedly animated writers’ imagination, motivating them to imagine new worlds or to present the...

„tu das zum Bild, das uns heimwürfelt“. Zur Denkfigur des Würfelspiels in Celans Dichtung

Published Online: Mar 19, 2024

Page range: 66 - 90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2023-0004

Keywords
Paul Celan, the dice game, destiny, thrown existence, Heidegger

© 2023 Laura Cheie, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

„tu das zum Bild, das uns heimwürfelt“. Zur Denkfigur des Würfelspiels in Celans Dichtung

Published Online: Mar 19, 2024

Page range: 66 - 90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2023-0004

KeywordsPaul Celan, the dice game, destiny, thrown existence, Heidegger

© 2023 Laura Cheie, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Paul Celan, the dice game, destiny, thrown existence, Heidegger