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Luca Centenary Issue 1913 – 1994
!!! MAST HEAD ! Publisher: Contra Mundum Press Location: New York & Berlin Editor-in-Chief: Rainer J. Hanshe Guest Editor: Allan Graubard PDF Design: Giuseppe Bertolini Logo Design: Liliana Orbach Advertising & Donations: Giovanni Piacenza (To contact Mr. Piacenza: [email protected]) CMP Website: Bela Fenyvesi & Atrio LTD. Design: Alessandro Segalini Letters to the editors are welcome and should be e-mailed to: [email protected] Hyperion is published three times a year by Contra Mundum Press, Ltd. P.O. Box 1326, New York, NY 10276, U.S.A. W: http://contramundum.net For advertising inquiries, e-mail Giovanni Piacenza: [email protected] Contents © 2013 by Contra Mundum Press, Ltd. and each respective author. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Contra Mundum Press, Ltd. After two years, all rights revert to the respective authors. If any work originally published by Contra Mundum Press is republished in any format, acknowledgement must be noted as following and a direct link to our site must be included in legible font (no less than 10 pt.) at the bottom of the new publication: “Author/Editor, title, year of publication, volume, issue, page numbers, originally published by Hyperion. Reproduced with permission of Contra Mundum Press, Ltd.” Vol. VII, No. 3 (fall 2013) Ghérasim Luca Centenary Issue 1913 – 1994 Jon Graham, -
Gherasim Luca's Short Prose
Romanica Cracoviensia 3 (2020): 167–174 doi 10.4467/20843917RC.20.016.12938 www.ejournals.eu/Romanica-Cracoviensia Jakub Kornhauser http:/orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-9788 Jagiellonian University [email protected] GHERASIM LUCA’S SHORT PROSE: THE OBJECTS OF PREY (FIRST CHAPTER) ABSTRACT The paper continues “object-oriented” analysis of the most inspiring experiments in the Romanian Surrealism’s repertoire, notably in the short stories by Gherasim Luca, one of the movement’s leading representatives. His two books of poetic prose, published originally in the 1940s, could be interpreted as the emblematic example of Surrealist revolutionary tendencies in the field of new materialism. Such texts as The Kleptobject Sleeps or The Rubber Coffee become the laboratory of the object itself, gain- ing a new, unlimited identity in the platform of Surreality, where the human-like subject loses its status. Objects possess quasi-occult powers to initiate and control human’s desires. Therefore, Breton’s “revo- lution of the object” could concretize as literary praxis showing the way how contemporary “materialist turn” in anthropology deals with avant-garde theories. KEYWORDS: avant-garde, experimental prose, Surrealism, Gherasim Luca, Romanian literature. If we consider Passive Vampire (1945), which tends to be the highlight of Gherasim Luca’s Surrealist oeuvre, a textbook for learning the non-Oedipal world, his short stories written between 1940 and 1945 (18 texts of varied length collected in two books) would be a sort of an accompanying exercise book. While Vampire’s aim is to show the tota- lity of the author’s literary and philosophical endeavor, the oneiric stories are focused on a multitude of reading practices, sharing the spirit of negation of Luca’s subversive philosophical ideas. -
Gellu Naum Centenary Issue
VOL. IX, NO. 2 (autumn 2015) GELLU NAUM CENTENARY ISSUE !!! MAST HEAD Publisher: Contra Mundum Press Location: New York, London, Paris Editors: Rainer J. Hanshe, Erika Mihálycsa PDF Design: Giuseppe Bertolini Logo Design: Liliana Orbach Advertising & Donations: Giovanni Piacenza (To contact Mr. Piacenza: [email protected]) Letters to the editors are welcome and should be e-mailed to: [email protected] Hyperion is published biannually by Contra Mundum Press, Ltd. P.O. Box 1326, New York, NY 10276, U.S.A. W: http://contramundum.net For advertising inquiries, e-mail Giovanni Piacenza: [email protected] Contents © 2015 Contra Mundum Press & each respective author unless otherwise noted. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Contra Mundum Press. Republication is not permitted within six months of original publication. After two years, all rights revert to each respective author. If any work originally published by Contra Mundum Press is republished in any format, acknowledgement must be noted as following and include, in legible font (no less than 10 pt.), a direct link to our site: “Author, work title, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. #, No. # (YEAR) page #s. Originally published by Hyperion. Reproduced with permission of Contra Mundum Press.” Vol. IX, No. 2 — GELLU NAUM CENTENARY ISSUE Curated by Guest Editor VALERY OISTEANU 0 Valery Oisteanu, Gellu Naum: Surreal-Shaman of Romania 16 Petre Răileanu, Poésie & alchimie 25 Petre Răileanu, Poetry & Alchemy 36 Sebastian Reichmann, Ici & Maintenant (de l’Autre Côté).. -
H-France Review Volume 16 (2016) Page 1
H-France Review Volume 16 (2016) Page 1 H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 250 Monique Yaari, ed., “Infra-noir”, un et multiple. Un groupe surréaliste entre Bucarest et Paris, 1945-1947. Berne: Peter Lang, 2014. 404 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $73.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1762-7. Review by Cosana Eram, University of the Pacific. The historical avant-garde was an international community localized in multiple geographical areas, each with its own story, sometimes yet to be told. “Infra-noir”, un et multiple is the first volume entirely dedicated to the Bucharest surrealist group, whose narrative interweaves innovative conceptualization, unique artistic experimentation, bilingualism, and immigration. The coordinator of this anthology of critical texts and primary readings, Monique Yaari, professor at Pennsylvania State University, recently directed an issue of Dada/ Surrealism devoted to Romanian avant-garde and wrote about the topic in both French and English.[1] Apart from Yaari’s informed introduction and article, together with five other astute theoretical contributions of variable lengths (three approximately fifty pages each), the book contains a remarkable section of facsimile documents from the 1945-1947 period. Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Paul Păun, Virgil Teodorescu, and Dolfi Trost, all active within Romanian avant-garde circles before World War II, created and produced literary and visual works, as well as exhibitions as a distinct collective entity, which they named The Romanian surrealist group. Its existence de facto, including break-ups and disagreements, can roughly be circumscribed to the years 1941-1947. The coordinator’s choice was to focus on their most productive years and to analyze three out of the five authors, Luca, Paon (Păun), and Trost, who individually continued their creative pursuits abroad. -
Depoetize the Universe. Manifestoes of Romanian Surrealism
Romanica Cracoviensia 15 (2015): 279–287 doi: 10.4467/20843917RC.15.021.4288 www.ejournals.eu/Romanica-Cracoviensia Jakub Kornhauser Jagellonian University in Krakow DEPOETIZE THE UNIVERSE. MANIFESTOS OF ROMANIAN SURREALISM ABSTRACT The main aim of my article is to investigate, or simply to highlight the evolution of the twofold character of Surrealism-influenced, and later Surrealist, manifestos in three consecutive stages of the avant-garde movement in Romania. I apply the notion of the avant-garde manifesto developped by Benedikt Hjartarson in his essay “Myths of Rupture. The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-Garde”, with the aim of taking a closer look at the anti-Surrealist Romanian manifestos of the mid-twenties, pre-Surrealist texts of the thirties, and the proper phase of the newly-established Romanian Surrealist Group’s discoveries in the forties. KEY WORDS: Surrealism, manifesto, avant-garde, modernism. The main aim of my article is to investigate, or simply to highlight the evolution of the twofold character of Surrealism-influenced, and later Surrealist, manifestos in three consecutive stages of the avant-garde movement in Romania. I would like to apply the notion of the avant-garde manifesto developed by Benedikt Hjartarson in his essay “Myths of Rupture. The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-Garde” included in the anthology Modernism edited by Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska, with the aim of taking a closer look at the anti-Surrealist Romanian manifestos of the mid-twenties, pre-Surrealist texts of the thirties, and the proper phase of the newly-established Romanian Surrealist Group’s discoveries in the forties. -
Depoetize the Universe. Manifestos of Romanian Surrealism
Romanica Cracoviensia 15 (2015): 279–287 doi: 10.4467/20843917RC.15.021.4288 www.ejournals.eu/Romanica-Cracoviensia Jakub Kornhauser Jagellonian University in Krakow DEPOETIZE THE UNIVERSE. MANIFESTOS OF ROMANIAN SURREALISM ABSTRACT The main aim of my article is to investigate, or simply to highlight the evolution of the twofold character of Surrealism-influenced, and later Surrealist, manifestos in three consecutive stages of the avant-garde movement in Romania. I apply the notion of the avant-garde manifesto developped by Benedikt Hjartarson in his essay “Myths of Rupture. The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-Garde”, with the aim of taking a closer look at the anti-Surrealist Romanian manifestos of the mid-twenties, pre-Surrealist texts of the thirties, and the proper phase of the newly-established Romanian Surrealist Group’s discoveries in the forties. KEY WORDS: Surrealism, manifesto, avant-garde, modernism. The main aim of my article is to investigate, or simply to highlight the evolution of the twofold character of Surrealism-influenced, and later Surrealist, manifestos in three consecutive stages of the avant-garde movement in Romania. I would like to apply the notion of the avant-garde manifesto developed by Benedikt Hjartarson in his essay “Myths of Rupture. The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-Garde” included in the anthology Modernism edited by Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska, with the aim of taking a closer look at the anti-Surrealist Romanian manifestos of the mid-twenties, pre-Surrealist texts of the thirties, and the proper phase of the newly-established Romanian Surrealist Group’s discoveries in the forties. -
European School and the Group of Abstract Artists
26 The European School and the Group of Abstract Artists PÉTER GYÖRGY AND GÁBOR PATAKI 400 Péter György and Gábor Pataki The European School (Európai Iskola) came into being in October 1945, at the beginning of a brief, amorphous period immediately following the end of the Second World War, when the Soviet takeover and the concomitant strictly-limiting cultural policy was not yet in place. Among the founders were art critics Árpád Mezei, Imre Pán, Ernő Kállai, and Lajos Kassák as well as physician and art collector Pál Gegesi Kiss. Pán summarised their programme as follows: ‘Europe and the old European ideals are in ruins … A new Europe can only emerge out of the synthesis of West and East … We need to create a living European school giving shape to the new relation between life, the individual, and the community’.1 In 1945, the group was full of hope for a new beginning. Its theorists and artists were reaching back to the modernist tendencies of the interwar years; some of them had been members of Kassák’s Munka Circle (Munka Kör) in the late 1920s. The painters (Margit Anna, Jenő Barcsay, Endre Bálint, Béla Czóbel, József Egry, Jenő Gadányi, Tihamér Gyarmathy, Dezső Korniss, Tamás Lossonczy, Ödön Márffy, Ferenc Martyn, Ernő Schubert, Piroska Szántó) and sculptors (Lajos Barta, Dezső Bokros Birman, Erzsébet Forgács-Hann, József Jakovits, Tibor Vilt) found inspiration in artistic trends like Fauvism, Constructivism, and Surrealism. The members organised exhibitions (thirty-eight during their three-year existence), lectures, and debates as well as authored books, reviews, and pamphlets. They also arranged for showing foreign artists; the exhibitions of Paul Klee and the Czech Surrealists were realised upon their initiative. -
The Surrealist Group of Bucharest: Collective Works, 1945±1947
The Surrealist Group of Bucharest: Collective Works, 1945±1947 Monique Yaari Pennsylvania State University The surrealist group of Bucharest, active²mostly clandestinely² during the 1940s and dissolved in the early 1950s, consisted of five men born between 1910 and 1916: Virgil Teodorescu, Gellu Naum, Ghérasim Luca, Paul Paon (Păun at the time), and D[olfi] Trost.1 Their collective work is searching, experimental, at times intensely theoretical, written primarily in French, and, in the case of the last three, ranging across word and image. As a cohesive entity best known through a series of texts and a related exhibition known as the ³,QIUD-1RLU´ VTXHH]HG LQWR D QDUURZ ZLQGRZ RI SRVW-war cultural liberalism between a fascist and a communist regime (1945±1947), 1 Virgil Teodorescu was born in 1909. Also known as the founder, in 1932, of the youthful avant-garde journal, Liceu, he published under several pseudonyms, includ- ing Virgil Rareú VHH3DQăHGDQG3RSHGKRZHYHUWKHSVHXGRQ\PWKDW 3DQă PHQWLRQHG 7HRGRUHVFX DV XVLQJ LQ KLV ³FROODERUDWLYH ZULWLQJV ZLWK *KpUDVLP /XFD´GRHVQRWDSSHDULQDQ\RIWKHNQRZQSXEOLVKHGZRUNV He signed Teodorescou to all his French-language texts. Ghérasim Luca was born Salman Locker in 1913. He chose to transform in 1947 the pseudonym he had adopted during his adolescence into his official last name, Gherasim Luca, although he has come to be known as Luca, and his work is referenced under Luca, Ghérasim (or Gherasim). In my text here, I will be using interchangeably Ghérasim Luca and Luca. Gellu Naum was born in 1915. Also born in 1915, Zaharia Herúcovici, who officially changed his name to ZahDULD =DKDULD LQ KDG WDNHQ RQ VLQFH WKH V WKH SVHXGRQ\P 3DXO 3ăXQ become, during the 1950s±early 1960s, Paul Paon, and later Paul Paon Zaharia. -
Text, Context, Identity: the Paradigm of the Jewish Intellectual in the Romanian Culture Case Study: Benjamin Fundoianu/Fondane
2011 International Conference on Social Science and Humanity IPEDR vol.5 (2011) © (2011) IACSIT Press, Singapore Text, Context, Identity: The Paradigm of the Jewish Intellectual in the Romanian Culture Case Study: Benjamin Fundoianu/Fondane Speranț a Sofia Milancovici Faculty of Humanities, Political and Administrative Sciences Vasile Goldiş Western University Arad, Romania e-mail: [email protected] Abstract - The present scientific project analyzes the possible Paul Celan or Victor Brauner, Benjamin Fundoianu, reaction to being Jewish (assuming/denying/dissimulating) of Tristan Tzara, Ilarie Voronca etc., are eloquent examples in Jewish intellectuals in Romania. We gradually reach the text this case. The list spectacularly goes on with Gherasim Luca, by taking in consideration the context in order to identify how Norman Manea, Henri Gad, Leon Feraru, Dolfi Trost etc. the former can express the relationship between origin, Practically, we are talking about writers, philosophers, experience and environment. We aim to answer, at the end of columnists, artists, film-makers etc. Therefore, the method in the research, the challenge of establishing if the paradigm of which such a subject is to be tackled should have an the Jewish writer in exile (voluntary, self-imposed or imposed – interdisciplinary character. by whom? Why?) still has open doors and if Judaism still One of the terms that define, in its essence, the structure represents a literary identity in crisis. Research has thus an of the paradigm’s majority is that of dissimulation. As they interdisciplinary character, and the measures follow the natural steps from theory to applied analyzes. In the have “played” with their own identity, they “are playing” subsidiary of the subject, namely one oriented towards with the spiritual confessions as well. -
Tolle Lege Constantin ABĂLUȚĂ
tolle lege 1 Constantin ABĂLUȚĂ Neînsemnătate Anei Blandiana Mă bucur de neînsemnătatea mea în fiecare zori de zi odată cu prima rază de soare îmi zic că-i bine să fii un om de rând care trece pe-o stradă oarecare pe sub umbra copacilor și ei anonimi e-o putere neștiută în a te ține de-o parte în a nu fi mai mult decât unul din acele noduri ale pomului tuns primăvara nod care-a și dat lăstari sferă țepoasă bucurându-se-n soare scăldându-și în ploaie și zăpadă neînsemnătatea vegetală 2 nulla dies sine linea la hotelul care era în afara orașului, ridicat pur și simplu pe un mare maidan prăfos, un fel de tub enorm neperforat de nici o fereastră, care, văzut din afară, era aproape înspăimântător. Când pătrundeai în interior, Ana BLANDIANA prima impresie era aceea a unei grădini mirifice, pentru că nu se vedeau încăperile, acoperite de flori, încât părea că e o arhitectură de flori. De fapt, curiosul tub era format din inele suprapuse construite din balcoane și ferestre de care atârnau plante agățătoare, legând între ele etajele cu lanțuri vii de frunze și flori. Prima impresie era de-a dreptul șocantă și ar trebui să adaug poate că șoca prin frumusețe, dar nu ar fi exact: surpriza, oarecum neliniștitoare, a frumuseții era doar unul dintre elementele care contribuiau la șocul – oricât ar părea de ciudat – mai curând neplăcut pe care îl producea asupra noului venit. Parterul era un imens restaurant (sau poate mai multe) cu mesele ascunse sub coroane de arbori între care se întindeau liane, Corectitudinea politică contra încât senzația nu era de hotel sau de restaurant, ci International PEN de junglă, mai mult, de artificiu, în pofida frumuseții reale obținute cu mijloace naturale. -
Monique Yaari, Ed., Infra-Noir Un Et Multiple: Un Groupe Surréaliste Entre Bucarest Et Paris, 1945-1947 Cosana M
University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons College of the Pacific aF culty Articles All Faculty Scholarship 11-1-2016 Book review: Monique Yaari, ed., Infra-Noir Un Et Multiple: Un groupe surréaliste entre Bucarest et Paris, 1945-1947 Cosana M. Eram University of the Pacific, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cop-facarticles Part of the Modern Languages Commons Recommended Citation Eram, C. M. (2016). Book review: Monique Yaari, ed., Infra-Noir Un Et Multiple: Un groupe surréaliste entre Bucarest et Paris, 1945-1947. H-France Review, 16(250), 1–5. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cop-facarticles/490 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in College of the Pacific aF culty Articles by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. H-France Review Volume 16 (2016) Page 1 H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 250 Monique Yaari, ed., “Infra-noir”, un et multiple. Un groupe surréaliste entre Bucarest et Paris, 1945-1947. Berne: Peter Lang, 2014. 404 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $73.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1762-7. Review by Cosana Eram, University of the Pacific. The historical avant-garde was an international community localized in multiple geographical areas, each with its own story, sometimes yet to be told. “Infra-noir”, un et multiple is the first volume entirely dedicated to the Bucharest surrealist group, whose narrative interweaves innovative conceptualization, unique artistic experimentation, bilingualism, and immigration. -
Gherasim Luca's Short Prose: the Objects of Prey (First Chapter)
Romanica Cracoviensia 3 (2020): 167–174 doi 10.4467/20843917RC.20.016.12938 www.ejournals.eu/Romanica-Cracoviensia Jakub Kornhauser http:/orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-9788 Jagiellonian University [email protected] GHERASIM LUCA’S SHORT PROSE: THE OBJECTS OF PREY (FIRST CHAPTER) ABSTRACT The paper continues “object-oriented” analysis of the most inspiring experiments in the Romanian Surrealism’s repertoire, notably in the short stories by Gherasim Luca, one of the movement’s leading representatives. His two books of poetic prose, published originally in the 1940s, could be interpreted as the emblematic example of Surrealist revolutionary tendencies in the field of new materialism. Such texts as The Kleptobject Sleeps or The Rubber Coffee become the laboratory of the object itself, gain- ing a new, unlimited identity in the platform of Surreality, where the human-like subject loses its status. Objects possess quasi-occult powers to initiate and control human’s desires. Therefore, Breton’s “revo- lution of the object” could concretize as literary praxis showing the way how contemporary “materialist turn” in anthropology deals with avant-garde theories. KEYWORDS: avant-garde, experimental prose, Surrealism, Gherasim Luca, Romanian literature. If we consider Passive Vampire (1945), which tends to be the highlight of Gherasim Luca’s Surrealist oeuvre, a textbook for learning the non-Oedipal world, his short stories written between 1940 and 1945 (18 texts of varied length collected in two books) would be a sort of an accompanying exercise book. While Vampire’s aim is to show the tota- lity of the author’s literary and philosophical endeavor, the oneiric stories are focused on a multitude of reading practices, sharing the spirit of negation of Luca’s subversive philosophical ideas.