Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality - Couverture rigide

Blecher, Max

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1841022071 ISBN 13 : 9781841022079

Editeur : University of Plymouth Press, 2013

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Max Blecher was born on 8 September 1909 in Boto ani, a provincial town in northern Moldavia, also the birthplace of a number of other important Romanian writers, such as late-Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu, historian Nicolae Iorga, avant-garde poet and artist Isidore Isou and, more recently, novelist Dan Lungu. Up until the Second World War, Boto ani was an ethnically and culturally diverse town, whose population was made up of Romanians, Jews, Armenians, Greeks, Roma and Lipovians (Russian Old Believers whose ancestors had fled persecution during the time of Peter the Great). At the turn of the century, Jews made up almost half of the town's population. Max Blecher was the son of a merchant from the town's Jewish community. While he was still a young child, Blecher's family moved to Roman, a Moldavian town south of Boto ani, in the county of Neam , where his father opened a porcelain shop. The petty bourgeois Jewish milieu of provincial Moldavia is memorably evoked in his autobiographical Întîmpl ri în irealitatea imediat (Occurrences in the Immediate Unreality) (1936), for example in the settings of Eugene's sewing machine shop or the house and office of Blecher's uncle and cousins, the Webers.

Revue de presse

...Blecher has often been compared to Kafka (and not without reason), Occurrence also anticipates Sartre's La Nausee (1938). The strongest connection, however, is with Salvador Dali. Like Dali's 'soft clocks', everything here is about to melt. It is as though Blecher's world is always on the verge of ontological collapse; from behind the veil of things, nothingness stares out at him. Blecher was openly facinated by Dali as an inventor of the 'paranoiac critical method'. In a letter, he confessed: 'The ideal of writing would be a translation into literary form of the heightened tension exhibited by Salvador Dali's painting. That's what I want to accomplish - that cold madness of his, perfectly readable and essential'. --Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 2010, Costica Bradatan

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Plymouth Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841022071
• ISBN 13: 9781841022079
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
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