Stephen McBride ([email protected])
Sat, 5 Dec 1998 01:26:50 -0000
Anyway, I can't remember the interview this is from, possibly hot
Press, from around October/November 1984, as part of the
promotion for The Unforgettable Fire.
Bono said thet this song was inspired by the writings of the
Romanian poet, Paul Celan, who died in 1970.
Celan survived Auschwicz, whereas his family did not. He
commited suicide in 1970, seemingly unable to live with the "guilt"
that surviving such a horror when those close to you don't,
produces. Not unlike the Italian author, Primo Levi, who killed
himself in 1987, for, I think, much the same reason. Read Levi's "If
this be a man" for one of the most compelling, harrowing accounts
of the Holocaust that, certainly, I've ever come across. Anyway, I
digress...
A Sort of Homecoming is inspired by one of Celan's poems.
However, don't ask me which one, since much of his work is no
longer in print in the UK.
Anca, in Bucharest - do you know anythng about Celan? I'd love to
know more about him.
Thanks,
Stephen
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" - Walt Whitman
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