Objective Phantoms
By Kenneth Cox
The Passive Vampire, Romanian surrealist poet Ghe'rasim Luca's recently
translated book, brings objects and desires into intimate contact, with
unexpected results.
"Ghe'rasim Luca's Le Vampire Passif has for many years been surrounded
by an aura of mystery, like a 'forgotten' or lost grimoire of surrealist
writing; a book that, like its author, has had something of a 'phantom
existence'. First published in Budapest in 1945, by the appropriately
named E'ditions de l'Oubli ('Forgotten Books') - written in French, and
not his native Romanian - in an edition of only 460 copies, the book was
not republished until 2001, by Jose' Corti. It was not only its
inaccessibility that has created the book's legendary status, and not
only amongst that minority readership interested in surrealism, but the
personality of its author."
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/the_passive_vampire
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