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
1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 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

Oh, Doctor by Walt MarshAmy and the Cloud Basket by Ellen PrattHow to Look Like Somebody in Business Without Being Anybody by Stephen BakerThe October Child by Eleanor SpenceThe Best of Archie Comics, Book 1 by Frank Doyle
Floating Head on Cover
29 books — 2 voters

Joë Bousquet
An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.
Joe Bousquet

André Breton
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Andre Breton, Magnetic Fields

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