Author: Catherine Hansen File Type: pdf table table itemDisplayTabletbodytr dc-titletd metadataFieldLabelTitletdtd metadataFieldValueBlacker in Black The Romanian Surrealist Group and Postwar Surrealismtdtr tr dc-contributor-authortd metadataFieldLabelAuthorstdtd metadataFieldValuea author href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=author&value=Hansen%2C+CatherineHansen, Catherineatdtr tr dc-contributor-advisortd metadataFieldLabelAdvisorstdtd metadataFieldValuea advisor href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=advisor&value=Rentzou%2C+EffieRentzou, Effieaa advisor href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=advisor&value=Bellos%2C+DavidBellos, Davidatdtr tr dc-contributor-othertd metadataFieldLabelContributorstdtd metadataFieldValueComparative Literature Departmenttdtr tr dc-subjecttd metadataFieldLabelKeywordstdtd metadataFieldValuea subject href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=subject&value=Infra+NoirInfra Noiraa subject href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=subject&value=Romanian+avant-gardeRomanian avant-gardeaa subject href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=subject&value=SurrealismSurrealismatdtr tr dc-subject-classificationtd metadataFieldLabelSubjectstdtd metadataFieldValuea subject href=httpdataspace.princeton.edujspuibrowse?type=subject&value=Comparative+literatureComparative literatureatdtr tr dc-date-issuedtd metadataFieldLabelIssue Datetdtd metadataFieldValue2015tdtr tr dc-publishertd metadataFieldLabelPublishertdtd metadataFieldValuePrinceton, NJ Princeton Universitytdtr tr dc-description-abstracttd metadataFieldLabelAbstracttdtd metadataFieldValueThis dissertation concerns the Romanian surrealist group Infra Noir, whose five members were Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Dolfi Trost, Paul Paun, and Virgil Teodorescu. Active between 1940 and 1951, Infra Noir chose a perilous moment and setting to found a surrealist group. Surrealist ideas were unwelcome, to begin with, in a prewar Romania entranced by right-wing politics and philosophies, as well as in a postwar Romania remade in the image of Communism. Working within the dynamic of the Surrealist movements troubled relationship to Marxism and political activism, and across national and linguistic borders, the Infra Noir group thought a great deal about ideology, myth, materiality, and revolution, as well as modes of collective action and daily comportment. Beginning with the magazines and ephemera of a Bucharest interwar avant-garde scene menaced by the rise of fascism, I follow the members of Infra Noir through the war, the postwar triumph of Stalinist rule in Romania and of Stalinist influence in France, the repercussions of these events among Andre Bretons French Surrealists, and the various forms of exile that followed for Luca, Naum, and the others. The dissertation examines Infra Noirs critical and aesthetic vocabulary and key concepts in order to arrive at an overarching argument. I show firstly that for Infra Noir, the main problem - which they call the Obstacle - is that selves and their societies tend to act as facing mirrors that endlessly reflect each other and hold each other in place, preventing truly revolutionary thoughts and actions from taking flight. There is no getting above or outside this situation, and any attempt to do so strengthens its grasp. I show, secondly, that the groups solution to this problem is a strategy of dialectical negation which they call negation of negation. This strategy is manifest, for example, in Infra Noirs theories of matter, object-relations and object-making, as well as in the idiosyncratically political meaning the group gives to the word somnambulism, drawing on early psychiatric, occult, and surrealist discourses. Chapters One and Two are primarily literary-historical accounts of Infra Noir, focusing on Romania and France respectively Chapters Three and Four are primarily critical-theoretical accounts of Infra Noirs work on objects and materiality, and on somnambulism.tdtrtbodytable

Author: Georg Lukács File Type: pdf A trenchant account of Leninism from a giant of Marxist philosophy.Out of the chaos following Lenins death and the mounting fury against Lukacs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as the only theoretical equal to Marx. Lukacs shows, with unprecedented clarity, how Lenins historical interventions from his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to his detection of a new, imperialist stage of capitalism advanced the conjunction of theory and practice, class consciousness and class struggle. A postscript from 1967 reflects on how this picture of Lenin, which both shattered failed Marxism and preserved certain prejudices of its day, became even more inspirational after the oppressions of Stalin. Lukacss study remains indispensable to an understanding of the contemporary significance of Lenins life and work.ReviewThe definitive study of Lenins political theory. (Observer ) Language NotesText English, German (translation)