Surrealism

Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact.

Kafka on the Shore
Nadja
The Metamorphosis
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Hearing Trumpet
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Manifestoes of Surrealism
The Trial
The Master and Margarita
After Dark
Story of the Eye
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Paris Peasant
Une Semaine de Bonté by Max ErnstLost Profiles by Philippe SoupaultThe Surrealist Home by Will HobsonDestruction Was My Beatrice by Jed RasulaUbu Roi by Alfred Jarry
It Aint Even That Real, Larry
161 books — 6 voters

Gentry by Entailment by Achim von ArnimTubutsch by Albert EhrensteinPoempoems by Oskar PastiorThe Butcher's Tales by Rikki DucornetMad Balls by Benjamin Péret
The Printed Head (Atlas Press)
40 books — 2 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWilder Girls by Rory PowerIt by Stephen  KingDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonHouse of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Body Horror
52 books — 39 voters


Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abuse them was immediately to set oneself adrift from true being. Words need to be coaxed to reveal a little of their true nature, so as to close the breach that exists between the writer and the universe. The world is not something alien against which ...more
Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

André Breton
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Andre Breton

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