Gellu Naum’s "The advantage of vertebrae" : a surrealist path between collage, concrete poetry and liberature

Gellu Naum’s "The advantage of vertebrae" : a surrealist path between collage, concrete poetry and liberature

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Gellu Naum’s "The advantage of vertebrae" : a surrealist path between collage, concrete poetry and liberature

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title:	Gellu Naum’s "The advantage of vertebrae" : a surrealist path between collage, concrete poetry and liberature
author:	Kornhauser Jakub
editor:	Diaconu Mircea A., Nagy Rodica, Dimian Raluca, Petroşel Daniela, Coroi Ioana-Crina, Strugaru Oana
book title:	Critical discourse and linguistic variation : new investigation perspectives : receptions, analyses, openings : September 8-9, 2010, Suceava, România = Discurs critic şi variaţie lingvistică : noi perspective de investigare : receptări, analize, deschideri
date of publication :	2011
place of publication : name of publisher:	Suceava : Editura Universităţii "Ştefan cel Mare"
pages:	157-163
ISBN:	978-973-666-372-7
language:	English
book language:	English
abstract in English:	The paper presents one of the most interesting experiments in the Gellu Naum’s Surrealist repertoire, The Advantage of Vertebrae, a cycle of collage poems, created originally in the 40’s, but published late in 1975’s book Describing a tower. The poem is de-poetized by removing its teritory to the new context of the fashion-plate’s illustrations. The structure of the text is decomposed, disjoined, unbridled, oblated to the level of a signature under a photo. Altough it rejects traditional versification and even punctuation, Naum’s work is far from being an uncontrolled, amorphous outpouring of the unconscious; in the middle of this graphic/textual teritory, poetry seeks for its own destination. The text is not only de-formed, but, what is more important, re-constructed in the process of the fluid transformations, subsequently functioning more as an object then a traditional poem. This strange piece of art could also anticipate the formal experiments of the 50’s and 60’s notably the concrete poetry or be treated as a representative of liberature, the category suggested by Polish poet Zenon Fajfer back in the late 90’s. Fajfer underlines the material aspect of literature as an object: in this point of view, The Advantage of Vertebrae becomes the laboratory of the poetry itself, gaining a new, unlimited identity. In consequence, it can no longer be interpretable, analysis being a sole form of investigation.
keywords in Polish:	liberatura, poezja konkretna, Gellu Naum, poezja rumuńska
keywords in English:	liberature, concrete poetry, Gellu Naum, Romanian Poetry
number of pulisher's sheets:	0,6
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Romańskiej
type:	chapter
subtype:	conference proceedings