Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality

Literature & Fiction

Max Blecher

Literary

Non Basic Stock Line

Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients’ attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in Romanian in 1939, and was more recently compared to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain and the fiction of Franz Kafka.Like Emmanuel, Max Blecher suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, and spent the last year of his life in a full body cast and wheelchair, before dying at age twenty-nine with two novels completed.

Scarred Hearts

Genre Fiction

Old Street Publishing

Transparent Body & Other Poems

Sublunary Editions

"At a distance, death becomes so inconsequential. I'm not scared of death. Then I'll rest and sleep. Ah, how well I'll stretch out, how well I'll sleep! Listen, I've begun to write a novel." This is how Max Blecher tells Mihail Sebastian that he is working on a book, the one that will be his final book, the one which, as Blecher biographer and scholar Doris Mironescu describes in the introduction, "is where Blecher formulates his declaration of war against the idea of the logical coherence of reality, not from the position of a marginalized being frustrated by his own failure, but as an individual who, because of the disease, has the advantage of looking beyond the shell of things, beyond the glistening peel called 'life'."

The Lighted Burrow

Aventures dans l'Irréalité Immédiate

MAURICE NADEAU

ACONTECIMENTOS NA IRREALIDADE IMEDIATA - VOL. 6

AYLLON

An anthology of Rumanian poems, together with their English translations, with an avant–garde flavor, stunning by the evocative strength of their imagery and their ability to create vivid atmospheric states, starting with the youthful poems of Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), in which life might be «sad, but nevertheless a garden», and ending with the disconsolate poems of Mariana Marin (1956–2003), with the surrealist poetry of Paul Celan (1920–1970), Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Ilarie Voronca (1903–1946), Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), oniric poetry by Vintilă Ivănceanu (1940–2008), George Almosnino (1936– 1994), Nora Iuga (1931–) and much more in between. There are uncanny connections in the states of soul, over long stretches of time, between the various poems. Translation supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.

Something is still present and isn’t, of what’s gone. A bilingual anthology of avant-garde and avant-garde inspired Rumanian poetry

paul-celan

Tristan Tzara

Ghérasim Luca

Nora Iuga

Gellu Naum

Mariana Marin

B. Fundoianu

Ilarie Voronca

Geo Bogza

George Almosnino

Nichita Stănescu

Vintilă Ivănceanu

Daniel Turcea

ARACNE EDITRICE

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