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100	1		_aBlecher, Max. _d1909–1938 _0Q660670 _2wikidata
100	1		_aReigh, Gabi. _etranslator
100	1		_aGlăvan, Gabriela. _eafterword
222		0	_aThe Illuminated Burrow
245	0	0	_aThe Illuminated Burrow _b: A Sanatorium Journal _c/ Max Blecher
250			_aFirst Edition
257			_aCZ
260	3		_aPrague: _bTwisted Spoon Press, _c2022.
300			_a166 pages, _bhardcover.
520			_aMax Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death the following spring, but its full version was only published posthumously in 1971. It was the final “novel” in what can be called a trilogy that includes Adventures in Immediate Irreality and Scarred Hearts, and like those, its imaginative distortion of real experiences is reminiscent of Bruno Schulz as well as the Surrealist autofiction of André Breton and Michel Leiris. Set in the sanatoria where Blecher received treatment for spinal tuberculosis, the ostensible narrator is forced to confront the power and limitations of memory as he attempts to capture the last moments of life as they pass “like ash ... through a sieve,” one final effort to reclaim the beauty of days spent straddling the boundary between waking and dreaming, encountering the marvelous both inside and outside the sanatorium's walls, inside and outside his very body. As his physical powers decline and he becomes permanently bedridden, the narrator’s life migrates to his inner consciousness, an “illuminated burrow” where reality is indistinguishable from fantasy, where the surreal and the mundane seamlessly fuse to enact the fears and fascinations elicited by the vibrant world that is gradually slipping away.
650	0	1	_aSanatoriums _vDiaries _xFiction
655	0	0	_aTrăirism _0Q7212536 _2wikidata
765	0		_aVizuina luminată
883	2		_aManual _qNZ060427
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