| You may find this link useful http://alangullette.com/lit/surreal/ ..and read some W. Burroughs for totally freaky stuff |
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| I've been wondering for a while... do Kafka's works count as surrealism? |
| I'm not familiar with too much of his work, but as far as I know "A Country Doctor" is considered surreal. Its anime adaptation certainly was. Haruki Murakami is the one novelist I've encountered whose surrealism is on a level of its own. His stories are bizarre and impossible in concrete reality but the surreal elements fit with the novel's events so seemlessly that it's inextricable from the realism. |
| If you're a fan of horror or weird fiction I suggest checking out Michael Cisco. Reading him is like drinking a brain purée made out of the extracted geniuses of Burroughs, Schulz and Ligotti. Utterly delicious stuff: http://www.prostheticlibido.org/divinity-pop.html |
| I can recommend quite a few surreal books, novels :) Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" and "Neverwhere" Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita" (my favourite book of all times) Read them and tell me what you think! Are they surrealistic enough for you? ;) |
| Finnegans Wake is probably the most insanely surreal novel ever written. Definitely check that out! And yeah, get some Kafka, too. ;) |
| The Foam of the Days from Boris Vian |
 “Read as little as possible of critical or aesthetic works. They are either products of a close-minded spirit, petrified and devoid of meaning in their lifeless hardening, or clever verbal games [...]. Works of art are of an infinite solitude; nothing is worse than criticism for approaching them. Only love can grasp them, keep them, be just toward them. Always give precedence to your own feeling against these analyses, these reviews, these introductions. [...] You must let every impression, every seed of feeling, ripen within you, in the dark, in the inexpressible, in the unconscious, those regions closed to understanding. Wait with humility and patience for the hour of the birth of a new clarity. Art demands of its faithful followers as much as of its creators.” — RAINER-MARIA Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (letter dated April 23, 1903). |
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