Abstract
Bevilacqua, who recently passed away (2019), first came to prominence as a leading scholar of German Romanticism. But the Florentine also introduced Paul Celan’s poetry in Italy. His entire critical work, written in Italian, has been translated into German, except for the essay which is presented here for the first time in a French translation. In-depth conversations with Celan in Paris later confirmed many of the intuitions Bevilacqua outlined in his essay.The question he poses here leads him to counter the theses of “pure poetry” and Mallarmean Hermeticism with a time-related re-reading of Celan’s texts. In this way, the critic attempts to restore the “pneumatic” path (the “breath”) that results in the “forced” impossibility to say the world such as it was and such as it is. And so, the word merges into silence.
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