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Paul Celan's posthumous poetry collection, Light Compulsion (1970), 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 he had to wage at that time left its mark on many of the poetic texts that deal with madness, pain, and death. At the same time, Celan always sought to keep his finger on the pulse of life - he revised important stages of historical development, responded to the current problems and challenges facing the human community, and outlined 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.