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 incommunicable, height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory.”– André Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929)
Surrealism was started as a movement in 1919 by literati.
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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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