Pennings Poemings

It is the banality of oblivion that appears incomprehensible and intolerable to Boris Lurie. Evil is familiar to the Holocaust survivor. He has experienced it closely, repeatedly: »THE TRAGEDY IS / (RE)PERFORMED / (BE)FOR(E) ME / TO A HITLER AUDIENCE OF MILLIONS / FOR ME ALONE«. Lurie confronts postwar society with the past through his provocative and political art that does not want to be art, and also through his writing. His hard, hermetic associations keep the reader at a distance while revealing Lurie's most intimate struggle. His texts and poems, published in 2003 under the title >Geschriebigtes - Gedichtigtes, NO!art in Buchenwald