1st Edition
Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose
Foreword by Krzysztof Fijalkowski
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Part I: The Breakthrough of Dissident Surrealism
1 The Collège de Sociologie and Dissident Surrealism
Part II: The Explosion of Surrealism in Hispanic America and the Divin Fou of Natural Time
2 Hispanic American and Caribbean Surrealism and the Colligative of Alejo Carpentier’s lo real maravilloso
3 Postcolonial Dissident Surrealist Mediums: Geotemporal Conflations of the Isles of Paradise in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps
Part III: The Manifestation of Surrealism in Britain and a Sociological Divin Fou
4 The Brief Moment of British Surrealism, Its Social and Divergent Paths
5 Modalities of the Female Surrealist: The Therianthrope of the Sacred Quest in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet
Part IV: The Rise of Romanian Surrealism and Amour Divin Fou
6 The Balkans and the Romanian Avant-Garde: Communism in South-Eastern Europe
7 Europe’s Eastern Surrealist Meanings: The Gift of the Primordial Waters in Gellu Naum’s Zenobia
Part V: Surrealism’s Revolutionary Consciousness: The Collège de Sociologie’s Extensions to Surrealist Theory and Reading International Surrealism
8 Theorem, Theorie, Theōreō
Indicative Publication History
Biography
Vivienne Brough-Evans is an independent scholar, UK.
'Provocative, dissident, surprising, international in focus, historically grounded: Vivienne Brough Evans' book is everything one would wish for in a study of literary surrealism and avant-garde prose. It will help redraw the map of twentieth-century literary history.' Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK
'Through highly original readings and inspired conjunctions of literary sources, Vivienne Brough-Evans has wrought a surprising, rich and thoughtful study; she has most usefully extended the borders of surrealism as they have been drawn till now, and re-oriented concepts of the sacred and its role in imagining and making community.' Marina Warner, CBE, President, British Comparative Literature Association, UK
