Schneepart (rendered in English as Snow Part) is a 1971 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan.
The book was published in Germany posthumously in 1971 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
[1] The full work appeared in English, together with translations of a further 20 posthumous poems, in 2007 as Snow Part: Schneepart and Other Poems, in a translation by Ian Fairley, which won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from German.
[3] James Buchan of The Guardian wrote in 2007 of Ian Fairley's translation of the poems: "I do not think that Celan was a sort of verse Heinrich Böll, who set himself to rid written German of National Socialist patterns of speech and writing....Only when language is utterly disabled, it seems, can it articulate, in some abandoned region at the end of space and history, a fugitive echo of reality."
Buchan continued: "The language of Schneepart is not merely purged of inherited content or meaning.