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Paul Celan
1948
Poem
History, Tragedy, War Literature
The poem "Death Fugue" is told from the collective first-person plural perspective of Jewish prisoners inside a Nazi concentration camp.
"Death Fugue" is written in the present tense.
"Death Fugue" (original German "Todesfuge") refers to the type of musical composition the poem's structure imitates. In a fugue, musical motifs are introduced, repeated, and recombined. The title also references the music the Jewish prisoners in the poem are forced to play before they are executed.
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