Saving Beauty

First published in German as Die Errettung des Schönen © S. Fischer Verlag
GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2015

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Extracts on pages vi and 77 from Paul Celan: Selected Poems, Author: Paul Celan, translated by: Michael Hamburger, © 1972. Reproduced with the kind permission of Johnson & Alcock Ltd.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1513-4

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Han, Byung-Chul, author.
Title: Saving beauty / Byung-Chul Han.
Description: English edition. ⏐ Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, [2017] ⏐ Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017009266 (print) ⏐ LCCN 2017030526 (ebook) ⏐
ISBN 9781509515127 (Mobi) ⏐ ISBN 9781509515134 (Epub) ⏐ISBN 9781509515097 ⏐ ISBN 9781509515103 (pb)

Subjects: LCSH: Aesthetics
Classification: LCC BH39 (ebook) ⏐ LCC BH39 .H36 2017 (print) ⏐DDC 111/.85--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc/gov/2017009266

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Once,

I heard him,

he was washing the world unseen, nightlong, real.

One and Infinite, annihilated ied.

Light was. Salvation.

Paul Celan¹