{"product_id":"our-lady-of-the-turks-paperback","title":"Our Lady of the Turks - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarmelo Bene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarole Viers-Andronico\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eCarole Viers-Andronico\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmelo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated 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 last reckon with Bene's genuinely radical transvaluation of every form of aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783943127328,"sku":"9781940625492","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5c01c29824e93a9f0ad9a8f1c3b9405f.webp?v=1780597285","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/our-lady-of-the-turks-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}