Ghérasim Luca

See also: Luca

Ghérasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) (July 23rd, 1913 Bucharest - February 9th, 1994, Paris) is a Rumanian poet and a theorist of the Surréalisme.

Ghérasim Luca is born in Romania in a Jewish medium Ashkénaze, like his/her friend Paul Celan. It takes share with the foundation then with the activity of the Rumanian surrealist group, carried out by Tzara, Fondane, Brâncuşi, Brauner.

In Romania, before the end of the war, it publishes its proclamation non-œdipien, lost to date.

From 1952, it settles definitively in Paris where it lives poorly in Montmartre, street Joseph de Maistre.

He speaks the Yiddish, Rumanian, French and German and becomes a recognized surrealist French-speaking poet, whose performances do not leave anybody indifferent.

His/her friend and accessory Jacques Hérold, painter, placards on the walls of Paris, little before May 1968, a list of tables imagined for him by André Breton and of the poems of Luca.

From 1973, the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari pay homage to him. Deleuze quotes it in Alphabetical the (Parnet), speaks about it like " larger French poet vivant".

Ghérasim Luca reads itself its poems, plays with the syntactic structures, made bégayer the language, based primarily on controlled word games and stammerings, by sequences and jerks. There is in its work since the beginning a true obsession of died in all its forms.

Faithful, André Velter devotes to him, of alive sound, several articles with the Monde of the Books and records two of its recitals for France Culture .

At the beginning of 1994, it receives an opinion of expulsion of its apartment, officially for reasons of hygiene. February 9th, it commits suicide while jumping in the Seine.

His/her friend the photographer Gilles Ehrmann paid homage with to him the House of eyes (1994).

He had spent 40 years to France without papers and lived with the painter Micheline Catti.

Its fertile influence of sound living of the poet like Serge Pey, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Joel Hubaut, Olivier Cadiot or Julien Blaine and does not cease growing as the recent adaptations to its work to the theater and the many studies testify some which appear on him.

Works

  • a wolf through a magnifying glass , Bucharest, 1942. Prose poems, published firstly in Rumanian, then translated by the author into French and published in 1998, Editions Jose Corti
  • Quantitatively liked , Editions of the Lapse of memory, Bucharest, 1944
  • the passive Vampire , Editions of the Lapse of memory, Bucharest, 1945 Dialectical
  • of dialectical the , in collaboration with Dolfi Trost, Editions surrealist, Bucharest, 1945
  • Orgies of the Quanta , Editions of the Lapse of memory, Bucharest, 1946
  • Amphitrite, Editions of Infra-black the , Bucharest, 1945
  • the Secrecy of the vacuum and full the , Editions of the Lapse of memory, Bucharest, 1947
  • Hero-Limit , Black Sun, Paris, 1953 with engraving and drawings
  • This Castle Had a presentiment of , Ignorance, Paris, 1958, with an engraving of Victor Brauner. THIS poem belongs to a wolf through a magnifying glass
  • the Key , Poem-Leaflet, 1960, Paris
  • Extreme-Western the , Éditions Mayer, Lausanne, 1961 with 7 engravings of Jean Arp, Brauner, max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wilfredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Dorothea Tanning
  • the Letter , Paris, 1960
  • the black Wizard , with Jacques Hérold, Paris, 1996
  • Seven slogans ontophonic , Brunidor, Paris, 1963 with engravings of Augustin Fernandez, Enrique Zanartu, Gisele Celan-Lestrange, Jacques Hérold.
  • elementary Poetry , Brunidor Editions, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1966
  • Apostroph' Apocalypse , Upiglio Editions, Milan, 1967 with 14 engravings of Wilfredo Lam
  • Sisyphus Géomètre , Éditions Givaudan, Paris, 1967 design of the book by Piotr Kowalski starting from bubbles of glass containing of rare gases
  • Right to watch on the ideas , Brunidor, Paris, 1967
  • Déférés in front of an emergency court Paris, 1968
  • Die-Monolog , Brunidor, Paris, 1969 with engravings of Micheline Catty
  • the End of the world , Petitthory Editions, Paris, 1969 with frontispiece of Micheline Catty and 5 drawings of Ghérasim Luca
  • the Swirl which rests , Critique and History, 1973
  • Song of the carp , Black Sun, Paris, 1973 with a disc of its voice and a sculpture out of glass and mirrors of Piotr Kowalski, rééd. by Jose Corti, 2001
  • Presence of unperceivable the , Franz Jacob, Châtelet, without date
  • Paralipomènes , Black Sun, Paris, 1976 with a " object; cubomanie" of the poet
  • Theater of Mouth , Criapl' E, Paris, 1984 with engravings and 9 drawings of Micheline Catti.
  • Satyrs and Satrape , Editions of Crem, Barlfeur, 1987
  • the prey shade , Editions Jose Corti, Paris, 1991
  • the Cry , Editions With the wire of ink, Paris, 1995
  • here the silanxieuse way , Editions Jose Corti, Paris, 1997
  • Release from prison , Editions Jose Corti, Paris, 2003

Recitals

(list to be supplemented)

Discography, monographs, interpretations

  • Blood bath , Ghérasim Luca reads 3 poems with the MOMA, New York, October 1984 (ADLM, 1998)
  • Ghérasim Luca by Ghérasim Luca , Double CD, Jose Corti, 2001 container 17 poems recited
  • Carlat, Dominique: Ghérasim Luca inopportune the , Jose Corti, 2001
  • Velter, Andre: Ghérasim Luca passionately , Jean-Michel Places, 2001
  • Martin Serge (to dir.): With Ghérasim Luca passionately , editions Tarabuste (supplement with the review " Triages"), 2005,138 p. Reprend again acts of the day of study " Ghérasim Luca with throat dénouée" organized at the University of Cergy-Pontoise on December 10th, 2004. Includes/understands the communications of Serge Martin, Laurent Mourey; Daniel Delas; Julian Toma; Zeno Bianu; Elke de Rijcke; Nicoletta Manucu; Patrick Quillier; Cendrine Varet; Oriane Barbey; Philippe Païni; Marie Cosnefroy-Pared; Patrick Fontana and an exhaustive bibliography carried out by Cendrine Varet and Serge Martin.

Catalog of films

  • How to leave itself there without leaving (1989, Sept/CDN/FR3), realized by Raoul Strapped, in which Ghérasim Luca recites eight poems.

Internal bonds

  • Jacques Hérold Rumanian painter, friendly and accessory to Ghérasim Luca.

External bonds

  • the page of the author on UbuWeb (extracted sound).
  • the page of the author on the site of the Editions Jose Corti (extracted sound).

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