Surrealism in literature
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| :“Everything leads us to believe that there is a certain state of mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, the communicable and the [[ineffable|incommunicable]], height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory.”– André Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929) | :“Everything leads us to believe that there is a certain state of mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, the communicable and the [[ineffable|incommunicable]], height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory.”– André Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929) | ||
| - | [[Surrealism]] was started as a movement in the late [[1910s]] by [[literati]] [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] and [[André Breton]]. | + | [[Surrealism]] was started as a movement in the late [[1910s]] by [[literati]] [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] and [[André Breton]], so from the onset, the movement was literary by its very nature. The importance of literature to the movement was further stressed by Breton's ''[[Anthology of Black Humour]]''. |
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- “Everything leads us to believe that there is a certain state of mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory.”– André Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929)
Surrealism was started as a movement in the late 1910s by literati Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton, so from the onset, the movement was literary by its very nature. The importance of literature to the movement was further stressed by Breton's Anthology of Black Humour.
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experimental literature - surrealism - literature
Precursors
Arthur Rimbaud - Lautréamont - Lautréamont - Roussel
Practitioners
André Breton - Marcel Duchamp - de Chirico - Robert Desnos - Raymond Queneau - Michel Leiris - Peret - Jacques Prévert
Examples
Examples of Surrealist literature are Crevel's Mr. Knife Miss Fork (1931), Aragon's Irene's Cunt (1927), Breton's Sur la route de San Romano (1948), Peret's Death to the Pigs (1929), and Artaud's Le Pese-Nerfs (1926).
External links
- via alangullette.com
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