The Passive VampireTwisted Spoon Press, 2008 - 139 pagine Originally published in 1945 by Les ditions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the 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 Andr 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. |
Dall'interno del libro
Prova ad ampliare la ricerca a tutti i volumi: unity
Risultati 1-0 di 0
Parole e frasi comuni
Alexis Lykiard André Breton apparition appeared avant-garde ball become beloved blood bookshelf breasts breath Bucharest castrating catastrophe causality darkness death decoration Déline delirious Demon desire Dialectic diurnal Dolfi Trost doll doll's dreadful dream earthquake erotic external eyes Fantômas feel flowers French Surrealist friends Gellu Naum gestures Ghérasim Luca Gilles de Rais give hair hand head Hélène humanity Ideal Phantom images internal interpretation Jacques Hérold Krzysztof Fijałkowski Lautréamont Letter Libido lips living lover Luca's magic Maldoror mask masturbation mechanism morte move mystery Nadja night nocturnal number 22 object objectively offered objective chance OBJECTIVELY OFFERED OBJECT obscure Paris Passive Vampire Paul Paun pen nibs PIERRE SOUVESTRE poems poet poison portrait psychic reality refused relationship reveal Romanian Surrealist Group Salvador Dalí Satan shadows siphon sleep spool surrealism transformed translated TWISTED SPOON PRESS unconscious velvet Victor Brauner Virgil Teodorescu wife woman