A poem in Der Vorleser and the Venus cycle of Octavio Paz

Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink has a poem with a striking echo of Octavio Paz Piedra de sol.

What makes it ring so clear is a verse not far above the parallel verse in the Paz with el rostro and el rostro ( and that the story of Hanna begins through a doorway.

But then I would not have noticed this without the Vogelgsang translation of the Paz and his choice of Antlitz and Gesicht.

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