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Gherasim Luca’s short prose: The objects of prey (first chapter)

Publication date: 30.11.2020

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 20 (2020), Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 167 - 174

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.20.016.12938

Authors

Jakub Kornhauser
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-9788 Orcid
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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, gaining 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 “revolution of the object” could concretize as literary praxis showing the way how contemporary “materialist turn” in anthropology deals with avant-garde theories.

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Information: Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 20 (2020), Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 167 - 174

Article type: Original article

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Gherasim Luca’s short prose: The objects of prey (first chapter)

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Gherasim Luca’s short prose: The objects of prey (first chapter)

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-9788

Jakub Kornhauser
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-9788 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 30.11.2020

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