Waking Up the Vampire. Marta Baron-Milian and Piotr Bogalecki talk to Jakub Kornhauser about Gherasim Luca, Romanian Surrealism and Non-fulfillment

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.17.08

Keywords:

Gherasim Luca, surrealism, avant-garde, Romanian literature, French literature

Abstract

The interview by Marta Baron-Milian and Piotr Bogalecki with Jakub Kornhauser, who has been translating Gherasim Luca’s prose works from Romanian and French and popularizing them, aims at locating the bilingual oeuvre of the author of The Passive Vampire within the field of Romanian and French literature and on the map of avant-garde practices, particularly considering the history of surrealism. The problems raised in the interview focus on the workings of history in Luca’s texts, on their political character, and the undertaken interpretations are directed at attempts to capture the oeuvre of this author inter alia through the prism of the marrano figure, economic metaphors and stammer, which is a peculiarity of Luca’s language both in poetry and in prose.

Published

2021-01-13

How to Cite

Kornhauser, J., Baron-Milian, M., & Bogalecki, P. (2021). Waking Up the Vampire. Marta Baron-Milian and Piotr Bogalecki talk to Jakub Kornhauser about Gherasim Luca, Romanian Surrealism and Non-fulfillment. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 17(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.17.08