@article{ce17a80a-07e6-4ffb-a39a-b96f722e0022,
author = {Jakub Kornhauser},
title = {Gellu Naum’s The Advantage Of Vertebrae. A Solitary and Terrible Object},
journal = {Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis},
volume = {2017},
number = {Volume 12, Issue 4},
year = {2018},
issn = {1897-3035},
pages = {277-288},keywords = {avant-garde; liberature; experimental poetry; concrete poetry; collage},
abstract = {The paper presents one of the most interesting experiments in the Gellu Naum’s Surrealist repertoire, The Advantage of Vertebrae, a cycle of collage poems, created originally in the 40’s, but published late in 1975’s book The Description of the Tower. The poem is de-poetized by removing its teritory to the new context of the fashion-plate’s illustrations. This strange piece of art could also anticipate the formal experiments of the 50’s and 60’s, notably the concrete poetry, or be treated as a representative of liberature, the category invented by Polish poet Zenon Fajfer back in the late 90’s. Fajfer underlines the material aspect of literature as an object: from this point of view, The Advantage of Vertebrae becomes the laboratory of the poetry itself, gaining a new, unlimited identity.},
doi = {10.4467/20843933ST.17.025.7790},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/gellu-naums-the-advantage-of-vertebrae-a-solitary-and-terrible-object}
}