Gherasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) (July 23, 1913 - February 9, 1994) was a surrealist theorist and Romanian poet, frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the unconscious. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a major French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ...

Luca was born in Bucharest, the son of a Jewish tailor. He spoke Yiddish, Romanian, German and French. From 1938, he traveled frequently to Paris, France, where he was introduced to the Surrealist circles. World War II and the official antisemitism in Romania forced him into local exile. During the short pre-Communist period of Romanian independence, he founded a Surrealist artists group, together with Gellu Naum, Paun, Theodorescu and Dolfi Trost. Bucharest (population 2. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Yiddish (Yid. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards or prejudice against Jews (not, in common usage, Semites in general — see the Scope section below). ... Exile is a form of punishment. ... Dolfi Trost was a Romanian surrealist poet and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. ...

His first publications, including poems in French followed. He was the inventor of cubomania and, with Dolfi Trost, the author of the 1945 statement "Dialetic of Dialectic". Harassed in Romania and caught while trying to flee the country, the self-called "étran-juif" ("StranJew") finally left Romania in 1952, and moved to Paris through Israel. Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. ... Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking or purporting to take automatism to its most absurd limits. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

There he worked among others with Jean Arp, Paul Celan, François Di Dio and Max Ernst, producing numerous collages, drawings, objects and text-installations. From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City and San Francisco. The 1988 TV-portrait by Raoul Sanglas Comment s'en sortir sans sortir made him famous for a larger readership. Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 - June 7, 1966) was a sculptor, painter, and poet. ... Paul Celan Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (the pseudonymous adopts an anagram of his surname in Romanian, Ancel) (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), who is considered one of the few major poets of the post-World War II era. ... Max Ernst Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 – April 1, 1976) was a German painter. ... Collage is the assemblage of different forms creating a new whole. ... Drawing is one of many ways to making an image; it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Stockholm City Hall Stockholm  listen is the capital and the largest city of Sweden. ... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Geneva: the Mont Blanc bridge over the Rhône River and St Peters Cathedral Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman, but the Genevois are fond of calling it Lac de Genève) empties into the... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... This article is about the city in California. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1994, he was expelled from his apartment, officially for hygiene reasons. Luca, who had spent forty years in France without papers, could not react. On February 9, at the age of 80, he committed suicide by jumping in the Seine. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ... This article is about the river in France. ...

Works include

Most of his poetic works were written in French. There are no known translation of his poem collections into English. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

• Un loup à travers une loupe, Bucharest, 1942. Poems in prose, initially published in Romanian. Later translated into French by Gherasim Luca. Apart from Ce Château Pressenti, they remained unpublished in French until 1998, Éditions José Corti
• Quantitativement aimée, Éditions de l'Oubli, Bucharest, 1944
• Le Vampire passif, Éditions de l'Oubli, Bucharest 1945
• Dialectique de la dialectique, together with Dolfi Trost, Éditions surréalistes, Bucharest, 1945
• Les Orgies des Quanta, Éditions de l'Oubli, Bucharest 1946
• Amphitrite, Éditions de l’Infra-noir, Bucharest 1945
• Le Secret du vide et du plein, Éditions de l'Oubli, Bucharest 1947
• Héros-Limite, Le Soleil Noir, Paris 1953 with an engraving and three drawings
• Ce Château Pressenti, Méconnaissance, Paris 1958, with frontispiece and engraving by Victor Brauner. This poem is part of Un loup à travers une loupe
• La Clef, Poème-Tract, 1960, Paris
• L'Extrême-Occidentale, Éditions Mayer, Lausanne 1961 with 7 engravings by Jean Arp, Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wilfredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Dorothea Tanning
• La Lettre, no editor mentioned, Paris, 1960
• Le Sorcier noir, with Jacques Hérold, Paris 1996
• Sept slogans ontophoniques, Brunidor, Paris 1963 with engravings by Augustin Fernandez, Enrique Zanartu, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, Jacques Hérold.
• Poésie élémentaire, Éditions Brunidor, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1966
• Apostroph'Apocalypse, Éditions Upiglio, Milan 1967 with fourteen engravings by Wilfredo Lam
• Sisyphe Géomètre, Éditions Givaudan, Paris, 1967 Book-sculpture designed by Piotr Kowalski
• Droit de regard sur les idées, Brunidor, Paris, 1967
• Déférés devant un tribunal d'exception, no editor mentioned, Paris, 1968.
• Dé-Monologue, Brunidor, Paris, 1969 with two engravings by Micheline Catty
• La Fin du monde, Éditions Petitthory, Paris 1969 with frontispiece by Micheline Catty and five drawings by Ghérasim Luca
• Le Tourbillon qui repose, Critique et Histoire, 1973
• Le Chant de la carpe, Le Soleil Noir, Paris, 1973 with sonogramme and sculpture by Kowalski
• Présence de l'imperceptible, Franz Jacob, Châtelet; with no date of publication
• Paralipomènes, Le Soleil Noir, Paris 1976 with a cubomania by Luca
• Théâtre de Bouche, Criapl'e, Paris, 1984 with an engraving and nine drawings by Micheline Catty.
• Satyres et Satrape, Éditions de la Crem, Barlfeur, 1987
• Le Cri, Éditions Au fil de l'encre, Paris, 1995

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• La proie s'ombre
• La voici la voie silanxieuse
• Levée d'écrou, Éditions José Corti, 2003

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Filmography

• Comment s'en sortir sans sortir (1988), directed by Raoul Sangla, in which Gherasim Luca recites eight of his poems in a very sober setting.

External links

• Page about Gherasim Luca (http://www.jose-corti.fr/auteursfrancais/luca.html) (in French)
• "Passionnément", poem and audio document of the poet's performance (http://dtext.com/hache/passion.html) (in French, authorized by copyright holder)
• "Quart d'heure de culture métaphysique", poem and audio document of the poet's performance (http://dtext.com/hache/metaphysique.html) (in French, authorized by copyright holder)
• English translation of some of his poems:
  • Dream in Action, from Héros-Limite (http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/books/texts/lucas-dream.html)
  • Hermetically Open, from Héros-Limite (http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/books/texts/lucas-herme.html)
  • 15 minute metaphysical, from Quart d'heure de culture métaphysique, Le Chant de la Carpe (http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/books/texts/lucas-meta.html)
  • Embody, from Prendre Corps, Paralipomènes (http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/books/texts/lucas-para.html)
  • Madeleine, from La proie s'ombre (http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/books/texts/lucas-made.html)
• Dominique Carlat: Ghérasim Luca l'intempestif