The Passive Vampire
A European Literature, Surreal, Fiction book. Since I've started living out my dreams, since I've become the contemporary of the centuries to come,...
To hear and to see Ghérasim Luca read is like rediscovering the primordial power of poetry, its prophetic force and subversive effect.— Le MondeOriginally published in 1945 by Les Éditions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 alongside texts by Jabès and Michaux in Georges Henein's magazine La part du sable. Luca, whose work...
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Is it true, as is claimedthat after death man continuesa phantom existenceI'll let you know Ghrasim Luca, The Passive Vampire // Since I've started living out my dreams, since I've become the contemporary of the centuries to come, I no longer know death under the annihilating guise it has maintained in today's society. Only in my moments of deepest depression do I realise that in that world of swine into which I was born I shall be forced to die, just as out in the street I'm obliged to rub shoulders with priests and cops. Ghrasim Luca, The Passive Vampire // The streets were full of destruction and rubble, and this town I'd never liked, with its stupid people, stupid streets, and stupid houses, was now unrecognisable, now it had a truly unique beauty, and scantily-clad women traversed it like ghosts. A twelve-storey building in the city centre had totally collapsed. Caught up in her bed sheets, a woman who had fallen from the top floor found herself alive and alone on the pavement. Her husband had been thrown out of bed. From now on she would sleep forever, since reality was now as extraordinary as dreams....
The Passive Vampire is the titleGherasim LUCA is the AuthorKrzysztof Fijalkowski is the translator Published in 1945, Gherasim Lucas The Passive Vampire is a provocative and erotically charged love letter to the French surrealist group. A french letter one might say, given that the Rumanian Luca (real name Salman Locker) wrote not in his native tongue but that of Andr Breton and the surrealists he had recently met in Paris; it is... When I first read about this book and the Bucharest Surrealists, I assumed their work would contain too much reverence to the French Surrealists to really stand apart, and true enough, the introduction by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, who provided the translation, somewhat overemphasizes Luca's obsession with Andre Breton. In fact, it so resembles...
