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Paul Celan's poetry collection "The Breaking of a Breath", the fifth in a series of complete works by the writer, contains 80 poems written in 1963-1965, divided into 6 cycles. In one of his letters to his wife, the author describes this collection as "really the densest of all that I have written so far, but also the most voluminous". The notion of breath, already present in the title of the book, in many cases also determines its programme - breath as a prerequisite for life and poetic creation, as a poetological and existential code of continuous human metamorphosis.

Breath, according to Rilke, is at the same time an "invisible poem", so this concept also implies for Celan the continuous development of his poetic ideas and principles, the search for a new, aesthetically perfect poem inspired by reality and truth.