Oriol Vilanova: They Cannot Die

by Christoph Keller, Oriol Vilanova (Artist)

In this handsome artist’s book, Catalan artist Oriol Vilanova (born in 1980) imagines a conversation on immortality between Salvador Dalí, Vladimir Lenin and Walt Disney in an empty gallery. A facsimile of a nineteenth-century guide to human taxidermy and an archive of postcards of museums, further extrapolate the theme of the preservation of life.

180 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2012

About the author

Christoph Keller—novelist, playwright, memoirist—is the Executive Assistant of the June M. Jordan Literary Estate Trust. With Jan Heller Levi, he co-edited We’re On: A June Jordan Reader, and has worked with foreign publishers on translations of Jordan’s work and books into German, French, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, and Basque. Keller also edited a Bengali/English selection of poems entitled Only Our Hearts Will Argue Hard. Keller’s 2019 novel, The Ground Beneath Our Feet, won the Alemannic Literary Award; his memoir Jeder Krüppel ein Superheld (Every Cripple A Superhero) was published in Switzerland by Limmat Verlag in 2020.