Translated into English, this title presents a discourse on the re-invention of love but beginning on a sombre note of suicide.
Ghérasim Luca Libri
Questo autore approfondisce temi di identità ed esilio con un distintivo tocco surrealista. La sua opera, plasmata da un background multilingue e dall'esposizione precoce ai circoli surrealisti parigini, è caratterizzata da giustapposizioni inaspettate e giochi di parole visivi. Ha aperto la strada a tecniche artistiche innovative che continuano ad affascinare, e le sue creazioni successive, tra cui collage e installazioni testuali, esplorano le complessità dell'esistenza. Il viaggio transnazionale dell'autore infonde la sua produzione di un profondo senso di sradicamento e scoperta.
The Passive Vampire
- 139pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
Originally published in 1945 by Les Éditions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 alongside texts by Jabès and Michaux in Georges Henein's magazine La part du sable. Luca, whose work was admired by Gilles Deleuze, attempts here to transmit the “shudder” evoked by some Surrealist texts, such as André Breton's Nadja and Mad Love, probing with acerbic humor the fragile boundary between “objective chance” and delirium. Impossible to define, The Passive Vampire is a mixture of theoretical treatise and breathless poetic prose, personal confession and scientific investigation — it is 18 photographs of “objectively offered objects,” a category created by Luca to occupy the space opened up by Breton. At times taking shape as assemblages, these objects are meant to capture chance in its dynamic and dramatic forms by externalizing the ambivalence of our drives and bringing to light the nearly continual equivalence between our love-hate tendencies and the world of things. This 1st English edition translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, with an introduction on “The objectively offered object” also by the translator.