Encounters with Surrealism

[cacian]

Why not share your best ever read surrealist stories or quotes for that matter.
I am having a dip at it to see if I can cut it.

My first initial thoughts got to Andre Breton the godfather of surrealism.
I am fan of surrealist movement because it takes the edge of reality and gives it a twist.
Reading becomes an image forever dented in prisms and movement never the same but always changing.
Words never sounded so good when pictures never looked so gripped.


Here is one quote from the founder himself

'there is a man cut into by the window'


This is one of mine.

''there is a flood of tears rushing through the gutters of life untouched''

[Des Essientes]

Slavador Dali's autobiography "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" is a great work of surrealism. He is, amazingly, a better writer than a painter. The anecdotes he tells in that book are so weird and so engaging but with a pathos that his paintings lack. Another surrealist literary work I heartily recommend is Georges Bataille's novella "The Story of an Eye". It is an amazing instance of a new surrealist literary genre which may be termed Philosophical Pornography.

[ennison]

The Story of the Eye is vile. Alice in Wonderland is the best kind of surrealism. It's really surreal.