Description: This is a gently used soft cover book in GOOD SOLID CONDITION—from a smoke-free environment. The photo you see is of the actual item you will receive. Please feel free to ask any questions you have about this listing. OUR LADY OF THE TURKS – by Carmelo Bene. Translated & with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico. Contra Mundum Press - ©2021, stated First Contra Mundum Press edition 2021 – ISBN 978-1-940625-49-2 – 167 pages – the book measures approximately 5 x 8. Carmelo Bene (1937-2002) was a notorious Italian actor, writer, and director who inaugurated his theater in 1959 with Camus' Caligula then exploded onto the artistic scene with his outré Christ '63. Later, he collaborated with Pasolini, Glauber Rocha, Bussotti and others as well as philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze. His novel Our Lady of the Turks (1964) recounts the bizarre, eccentric rituals of a young actor on a knightly quest, in the manner of the Crusaders, to hone his art so that he may ultimately become an idiot, if not a saint. C.B. describes Our Lady of the Turks as the jeu de cartes of a perverse novel on the idiolect. It is an amusing and merciless parody of "interior life," risibly entrusted to the third-person narrative form: a monody peopled by a thousand and one voices. A setting and a vision of a south of the south of the saints (the "homegrown" baroque, the Moorish kitsch of a palace, the cathedral-ossuary of the Otranto martyrs, etc.), "crusts" summoned to feed an ethnic fire... The music is elsewhere. The only novel in C.B.'s prodigious oeuvre, Our Lady of the Turks was (re)elaborated on stage (1966; 1973) and in images in an eponymous film, which Bene calls "a 1968 film, or better yet, the 'anti-1968 film' par excellence [that was] misunderstood to the bitter end." Translated by Carole Viers-Andronico, this is the second in a series of three separate volumes of Bene's writings that Contra Mundum will publish. As one of the only true 'spiritual' heirs of Artaud, Anglophones must at least reckon with Bene's genuinely radical transvaluation of every form of aesthetics. The book is in good condition; light reading wear; binding tight; pages clean and crisp--no writing, no underlining, no highlighting; cover and spine edges rubbed/chipped; normal shelf wear. Nice, tight, clean, crisp copy. G&M stock #1fe(jane23)
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Location: Round Rock, Texas
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