From Paris to Tlön

Surrealism as World Literature

AvDelia Ungureanu,Thomas Oliver Beebee

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Best International Debut in 2017 (awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association) Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities (awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest)Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction—including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the archives of Harvard’s Widener and Houghton libraries, where she has found that Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov were greatly indebted to surrealism for the creation of the pivotal characters who brought them world fame: Pierre Menard and Lolita. In From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature, Ungureanu explores the networks of transmission and transformation that turned an avant-garde Parisian movement into a global literary phenomenon.From Paris to Tlön gives a fresh account of surrealism’s surprising success, exploring the process of artistic transfer by which the surrealist object rapidly evolved from a purely poetic conception to a mainstay of surrealist visual art and then a key element in late modernist and postmodern fiction, from Borges and Nabokov to such disparate writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk in the 21st century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-02
Mått:142 x 224 x 18 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literatures as World Literature
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501341090

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Delia Ungureanu is Assistant Director of the Institute for World Literature and Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

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What distinguishes this book from a great deal of other scholarly material is the way in which [Ungureanu] knits together the anecdotes and vignettes into a seamless overall picture of the spread of surrealist ideas between people. ... This is a book for a diverse readership. I imagine a reader new to surrealism who would be drawn into its world and set off afterward to find out more. There are enough passages of quoted surrealist writing and images included to tempt the new reader to a greater engagement. I can imagine a scholar of surrealism finding in it surprising new connections between familiar people and places. I can also imagine any researcher of modern and contemporary literature who might be inspired by the method to take an angled view of other literatures from a fresh perspective.

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List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Intellectual Networks and Surrealist Objects2. On the Road to Establishment: Surrealism in the 1930s3. Pierre Menard the Sur-realist4. Surrealism on the New York Market5. The Battle Over the New World6. From Dulita to Lolita7. The Ghosts of Surrealism in the World NovelBibliographyIndex