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Paul Celan's poetry collection Light Compulsion (1970), which appeared posthumously, contains poems written in the first half of 1967 during his stay at the St Anne's University Hospital in Paris. The "battle with demons" that the poet had to wage at that time left its marks on many of the poetic texts that deal with madness, pain and death. At the same time, Celan has always sought to keep his finger on the pulse of life - he revises important stages of historical development, responds to the current problems and challenges facing the human community, and outlines his own vision of the future. Due to their paradoxical and closed nature, some of his poems do not lend themselves to immediate understanding, and they require repeated careful reading and joint creative thinking.