TY - JOUR
TI - Gellu Naum’s The Advantage Of Vertebrae. A Solitary and Terrible Object
AU - Kornhauser, Jakub
TI - Gellu Naum’s The Advantage Of Vertebrae. A Solitary and Terrible Object
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2017
IS - Volume 12, Issue 4
PY - 2018
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 277
EP - 288
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.17.025.7790
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/gellu-naums-the-advantage-of-vertebrae-a-solitary-and-terrible-object
KW - avant-garde
KW - liberature
KW - experimental poetry
KW - concrete poetry
KW - collage