Self-Shadowing Prey

Self-Shadowing Prey
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Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet GhÃ©rasim Luca (1913-1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation of play with considerable exactitude and rigor, Self-Shadowing Prey is rich with neologistic stupors, nouns made verbs, and compelling repetitions and linguistic expansions. Language is not merely put into play but made to participate in an erotic act, and words become the locus of an exploding self. This linguistically-joyous text reveals the arresting syntactic creation and creative stammering which Deleuze and Guattari both saw in Luca and what led Deleuze to call him a great poet among the greatest. "If GhÃ©rasim Luca's speech is eminently poetic," Deleuze pronounced, "it is because he makes stuttering an affect of language and not an affectation of speech. The entire language spins and varies in order to disengage a final block of sound, a single breath at the limit of the cry, JE T'AIME PASSIONNÃ‰MENT." Transformed for the first time into English by distinguished translator Mary Ann Caws, this bi-lingual edition of Self-Shadowing Prey gives us yet one more important text by a key figure of the Romanian branch of Surrealism. In addition, it is the first book of Luca's verse ever to be translated into English. "GhÃ©rasim Luca is a great poet among the greatest: he invented a prodigious stammering, his own." -Deleuze "Mary Ann Caws' passionate translations render deft, delightful facets of the formidable GhÃ©rasim Luca: virile servings of refreshment and tumult, liberating language from the yoke of Duty. This collection pairs and contrasts well with the churning self-surgery we had the pleasure of smuggling from Romanian. Self-Shadowing Prey calls for vertiginous reading, in exhilarating reflection of the sonorous scintillations of Luca's own reading performances." -Julian and Laura Semilian, translators of GhÃ©rasim Luca's The Inventor of Love & Other Works
Country USA
Brand Contra Mundum Press
Manufacturer Contra Mundum Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780983697213
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Contra Mundum Press
Manufacturer	Contra Mundum Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780983697213
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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