Nobody's rose

The collection "Nobody's Rose" occupies a central place in Celan's poetic output and is considered the pinnacle of his work. It includes poems that appeared between 1959 and 1963. Like the collection "Language Lattice", it contains a clearly expressed poetological program, which is at the same time a project of being. The construction of a new reality occurs with the involvement of existential questions and the problematic of cultural identity, primarily the suffering caused by the Holocaust, and the discovery of Russian literature, the embodiment of which for him was the Russian-Jewish poet Osip Mandelstam. The cosmic dimensions of Celan's universe are expressed, among other things, in numerous intertextual connections that show him as a poet extremely open to the world.