The Passive Vampire (Paperback)

Poetry. Art. Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Originally published in 1945 by Les Editions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, THE PASSIVE VAMPIRE caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 alongside texts by Jabes and Michaux in Georges Henein's magazine La part du sable. Luca, whose work was admired by Gilles Deleuze, attempts here to transmit the "shudder" evoked by some Surrealist texts, such as Andre Breton's Nadja and Mad Love, probing with acerbic humor the fragile boundary between "objective chance" and delirium. Impossible to define, THE PASSIVE VAMPIRE is a mixture of theoretical treatise and breathless poetic prose, personal confession and scientific investigation -- it is 18 photographs of "objectively offered objects," a category created by Luca to occupy the space opened up by Breton. At times taking shape as assemblages, these objects are meant to capture chance in its dynamic and dramatic forms by externalizing the ambivalence of our drives and bringing to light the nearly continual equivalence between our love-hate tendencies and the world of things.

General

Imprint:	Twisted Spoon Press
Country of origin:	Czech Republic
Series:	Art Lit
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Luca Gherasim
Illustrators:	Luca Gherasim
Translators:	Fijalkowski Krzysztof
Dimensions:	200 x 170 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - With flaps
Pages:	140
ISBN-13:	978-80-86264-31-8
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	80-86264-31-9
Barcode:	9788086264318

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