Launching of the special issue of the novel “Scarred Hearts”

     The fourth feature-length film by Radu Jude, Inimi cicatrizate/Scarred Hearts, a free adaptation after the literary work of M. Blecher, will be released in Romanian theatres on 18 November, being distributed by microFILM.

     On this occasion, Humanitas Publishing House will release a special issue of the novel “Scarred Hearts”. The illustration of the cover is signed by M. Blecher, the drawing being discovered during Radu Jude's documenting for the film. The drawing also became the central image for the film's poster.
     In M. Blecher's work, true suffering meets the courage to experiment of the literary avant-garde, displaying a style sometimes hard to classify for the critics, being on the sensitive borderline between autobiography and reverie.
     A sick man who does not see himself as a martyr, the only author who resisted, as he himself said, “Until my last chips”, Blecher became a subject of reflection in the journals of other writers of the same generation. “Will I ever have the courage to complain about something? Will I ever be wicked enough to have caprices, to be indisposed or annoyed with something? He lives in close intimacy with death. Not with the kind of abstract, nebulous, long-term death. It is his death, precise, well-defined, known in detail, as an object. What gives him the courage to live? What supports him? He is not even desperate. O don't understand, I confess I don't understand him.” (Mihail Sebastian)
     His literary trump card is mainly the way he looks at his own fate. “Compared to his generation colleagues, so vital, living so intensely and mediating from afar, even if obsessively, to the alien death, Blecher is the prisoner of a world turned upside down: for him, death is intense, familiar, close, while life is stranger. Blecher does not dwell in suffering. His entire life is a contradiction to the idea that the disease is humiliating.” (Ioana Pârvulescu)
     Humanitas Publishing House and the crew of Scarred Hearts hereby launches an invitation for Saturday 19 November, at 16.00, at the Gaudeamus Book Fair, to a talk about M. Blecher and to the cinema adaptation of his literary work, attended by director Radu Jude.
     The volume “Scarred Hearts” will be available starting on 3 November online and in the bookstores from the country.
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