TY - JOUR
TI - Gherasim Luca’s short prose: The objects of prey (first chapter)
AU - Kornhauser, Jakub
TI - Gherasim Luca’s short prose: The objects of prey (first chapter)
AB - 
	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.
VL - Volume 20 (2020)
IS - Volume 20, Issue 3
PY - 2020
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 167
EP - 174
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.20.016.12938
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/gherasim-lucas-short-prose-the-objects-of-prey-first-chapter
KW - avant-garde
KW - experimental prose
KW - Surrealism
KW - Gherasim Luca
KW - Romanian literature