《《【保罗·策兰：子午圈】The Meridian》》.pdfVIP

The Meridian Speech on the occasion of receiving the Georg Buchner Prize, Darmstadt, 22 October 1960 Ladies and Gentlemen, Art, you will remember, is a puppet-like, iambic, five-footed thing without - and this last charac- teristic has its mythological validation in Pyg- malion and his statue - without offspring. In this form, it is the subject of a conversation in Dantolls Death which takes place in a room, not yet in the Conciergerie, a conversation which, we feel, could go on forever if there were no snags. There are snags. Art comes up again. It comes up in another work of Georg Buchners, in Woyzeck, among other, nameless people in a yet more ashen light before the storm - if I may use the phrase Moritz Heimann intended for Datltolls Death. Here, in very different times, art comes presented by a carnival barker and has no longer, as in that conversation, anything to do with glowing, 37 Palll Celan roaring, radiant creation, but is put next to the creature as God made it and the noth- ing this creature is wearing. This time, art comes in the shape of a monkey. But it is art all right. We recognize it by its coat and trousers. It - art - comes to us in yet a third play of Biichners, in Leonce atld Lena. Time and lighting are unrecognizable: we are fleeing towards para- dise; and