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>My Tired Father by Gellu Naum

"First published in Romania in 1972, My Tired Father is an autobiographical collage, an assisted cut-up. In words and diction lifted from old books and popular magazines, Naum demonstrates that desire is a constructive principle—and that the spirit of Surrealism is not reducible to a period style or rhetoric."

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Recent library-check outs okay too?

Telegram by Putu Wijaya
The Feverhead by Wolfgang Bauer
Visits of Love by Alfred Jarry
The Head of vitrus Bering by Konrad Bayer
The Castle of Communion by Bernard Noel
The Skewed Tales of H.C. Artmann
Tubutsch by Albert Ehrenstein
Obstacles by Reinhard Lettau
Selected Prose of Aleksei Remizov
My Tired Father by Gellu Naum (for rereading)

My Tired Father by Gellu Naum

"Gellu Naum is the sole surviving member of the Romanian Surrealists. If we can provisionally annex Surrealism to the avant-garde, he is also the last of the Romanian avant-garde, which flourished so intensely between the wars in journals such as Contemporanul, 75HP, Integral, and Unu -- James Bronk, translator. First published in Romania in 1972, MY TIRED FATHER is an autobiographical collage, an assisted cut-up. In words and diction lifted from old books and popular magazines, Naum demonstrates that desire is a constructive principle -- and that the spirit of Surrealism is not reducible to a period style or rhetoric."

He's not actually alive anymore, but this is an excellent surrealist book. It's sort of the literary equivalent of an album with lots of sampling.