For the Celan Year 2020. No other poem has gained such fame after 1945 as Paul Celan's "Death Fugue." Created under the immediate impression of the murder of his parents by the Nazis, it is considered one of the earliest literary testimonies in the face of the Holocaust. Thomas Sparr traces the history of this poem, which, like no other German-language work in the post-war period, encapsulates an entire era and unfolds an enormous, still ongoing international impact. He spans the arc from its creation through its initially controversial reception in the 1950s to the writers and artists who continue to be inspired by it to this day. His narrative also shows that the poem uniquely contains Celan's biography. Printed endpaper, ribbon marker, illustrations.