Surrealist

Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur.

Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Metamorphosis
Nadja
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Norwegian Wood
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The Master and Margarita
The Hearing Trumpet
Manifestoes of Surrealism
The Vegetarian
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The Third Policeman
After Dark
Capital of Pain
Robert M. Coates
Alive or dead," he told himself, "I am just so much manure. One hundred and sixty-five pounds of it, belong by right to the nearest field of corn. Take me out among the hills and lay me down there, a willing hostage from mankind, a tribute to the silent way, the august overlordship of the Vegetable Kingdom. ...more
Robert M. Coates, The Eater of Darkness

Salman Rushdie
I had nightmares about my eye being pulled out of my head, dreams reminiscent of Un Chien Andalou, the Surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, in which a cloud slicing across the full moon becomes a razor blade slicing through an eye” .
Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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