«Mon espoir est à l’est». L’equivoco epistolare tra Paul Celan e Petre Solomon sullo scenario dell’amicizia

The article explores the correspondence exchanged by Paul Celan and poet and editor Petre
Solomon beginning with the late fourties. The author builds on the definition that J. Dérrida gave to
friendship – a dual relation that involves a shared affectivity, shared choice and also a symbolic
“third”, which is the continuum of the discourse, in the case of friendship carried on through
letters.Friendship is the pretext for an original analysis of the “secrecy” typical to Paul Celan’s
poetry; the letters partially reveal some of the “secrets” of Celan’s poetry within the secure space of a
discourse destined to a friend. Thus, the correspondence is the intruder and also an interpreter of the
poetic mechanisms specific to Paul Celan.