'lees van Celan Sommerbericht'. Paul Celan in het werk van C.O. Jellema

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This paper investigates the influence of the German poet Paul Celan on the works of the Dutch poet C.O. Jellema. The starting point is the reference in Jellllema's poem 'Brief over schrijven' from the collection Een eng cocon (1975) in which the author explicitly refers to Celan's 'Sommerbericht'. This poem appears to be crucial for defining Jellema's poetical position, which in the end resulted in a rejection of Celan's poetics.