{"id":58471,"date":"2023-10-07T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=58471"},"modified":"2023-12-18T21:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T02:36:39","slug":"read-an-excerpt-claude-pelieus-kali-yug-express-via-mary-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/10\/read-an-excerpt-claude-pelieus-kali-yug-express-via-mary-beach.html","title":{"rendered":"Read an Excerpt<\/em><\/font>
Claude P\u00e9lieu’s Kali Yug Express<\/em> via Mary Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The unbearably devastating grind, the mechanical ballet, the electronic legend, death-TV, the\u00a0spontaneity of technological ideologies and everything in the sewer . . . contradictions don't astonish me anymore, I have other dreams to live through . . . we have to\u00a0do<\/em>, as if we were alone in the world,\u00a0do and\u00a0undo,<\/em>\u00a0acting in favor of solitude \u2014 we're haunted by the question of truth, it's often ugly and ragged \u2014 nausea and grief, despair, indifference, stupor. No abstraction can be made of them.<\/strong> \u2014 CLAUDE P\u00c9LIEU\n\nTranslated from the French by Mary Beach.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Claude wrote nonstop and piled up the words, a volcano of images, expressions, rages, and often lyrical nonsense he liked to spout at will. He was an amazing lingo flinger. There are probably reams and reams of unpublished writings of his floating around on somebody’s shelf. As I recall, he was in the habit of sending out typed manuscripts to scores of folks. Well, maybe not scores, but a helluvalot. \u2014 jh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“A visionary prophetic book written when the Hippies and Yippies were dissolving the Sixties, which didn\u2019t give us the political and social change needed . . . P\u00e9lieu saw C\u00e9line\u2019s words become the reality: \u2018The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don\u2019t go to war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy’.\u201d\u2014 Charles Plymell <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":true,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/KALI-YUG-EXPRESS-cover-240.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fd5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58901,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471\/revisions\/58901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}