translated in English by Philip Stoilov<\/p>\n
Metheor, Sofia, 2021<\/p>\n
Published also in\u00a0French, German and Bulgarian.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Virtuoso of Life\u201d is a poem about the limit \u2013 about Terra ultima. It introduces the images of the North \u2013 the stone and the dunes, the starlings and the stars, the colours of the Northern Lights \u2013 as the images of the limit of the world, but also of a limit world. Virtuoso\u2019s question is the question of the limit as a form of existence: an existence that exceeds its boundary. The limit as radical autonomy and as the limit of autonomy. Within this limit the Subject meets the unimaginable other, experiences it, sinks into its erogenous relief. Within this limit, the elements themselves insurge as subjects-virtuosos.<\/p>\n
The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982), who passed away ten days after his fiftieth birthday, and who was obsessed with the North; the ultimate Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, the author of the Metamorphoses, who mourned his fate in the forgotten paradise of Terra ultima, where time itself had frozen; Dr. Frankenstein\u2019 Monster, assembled of dead bodies and animated by an electric impulse, the Monster who left the world on an iceberg in the Arctic Ocean, are the fictional characters composing the constellation of \u201cThe Virtuoso of Life\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Boyan Manchev\u2019s philosophical poem \u201cThe Virtuoso of Life\u201d was presented at the opening of the exhibition Terra ultima (Terra Ultima, Swimming Pool, Sofia, 13-20 November 2021) in four language versions \u2013 in Bulgarian, French, German and English, with the participation of the actors Leonid Yovchev, Marcus Reinhardt and Christophe Petchanatz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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