Surrealismus

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREJosé Saramago's mesmerizing, classic narrative about the loneliness of individual lives and the universal need for human connection.Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman—but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love—all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form.

100 Jahre Surrealismus <BR> <BR>Der Surrealismus zählt zu den wichtigsten und innovativsten Kunstrichtungen der Moderne. Obwohl heute vor allem mit bildenden Künstlern wie René Magritte, Salvador Dalí oder Max Ernst assoziiert, wirkte der Surrealismus genauso auch in der Literatur richtungsweisend. Im Zentrum steht eine radikale Sprache, die das Unbewusste und die freie Assoziation ins Spiel bringt, sich gegen herkömmliche Logik und Bourgeoisie auflehnt, die freie Liebe sowie die Magie des Alltags propagiert und die Phantasie beflügelt. Andreas Puff-Trojan bildet im vorliegenden Band souverän das ganze Spektrum ab - von Wort und Bild bis hin zu Film oder Fotografie.

Cet ouvrage à plusieurs voix vise à mettre en lumière l'intemporalité et le caractère international du surréalisme, non seulement en tant que mouvement artistique, mais aussi comme défenseur de cette essence humaine qui nous pousse à aller au-delà des réalités apparentes. Le surréalisme ne chercherait donc pas tant à comprendre le monde mais à le vivre dans toutes ses dimensions insoupçonnées. Pour démontrer cela, ce livre adopte une approche comparatiste illustrant le dialogue permanent entre le mouvement surréaliste et le monde qui l'entoure, mais aussi entre les artistes d'un pays à l'autre, en Europe et aux Canaries. Il se propose ainsi de mesurer la profondeur et la portée de ce surréalisme qui a su conquérir tant de c¿urs, et sa quête éperdue d'une beauté qui, pour reprendre les mots d'Annie Le Brun, ' ouvre l'horizon et permet d'échapper à ce qui est '. Este libro polifacético pretende destacar la intemporalidad y el carácter internacional del Surrealismo, no sólo como movimiento artístico, sino también como defensor de esa esencia humana que nos impulsa a ir más allá de las realidades aparentes. El surrealismo no buscaría tanto comprender el mundo como experimentarlo en todas sus insospechadas dimensiones. Para demostrarlo, este libro adopta un enfoque comparativo que ilustra el diálogo permanente entre el movimiento surrealista y el mundo que lo rodea, pero también entre artistas de un país a otro, en Europa y en Canarias. Propone así medir la profundidad y el alcance de este surrealismo que ha conquistado tantos corazones, y su frenética búsqueda de una belleza que, en palabras de Annie Le Brun, "abre el horizonte y permite escapar de lo que es".

Although contemporary of the so-called "Marginal Poetry" of the 1970s, the poet Afonso Henriques Neto differs from it by his imagistic language on the edge of the abyss, marked by an acid look at the dictatorial context that Brazilian youth faced at the time. Afonso Henriques Neto is considered one of the most original authors of the period, by uniting in his poetry a conscious work on surrealism and Brazilian modernism, without ever losing the existential element marked by the counterculture of his generation.

" Nos rêves à l'arrêt " est un recueil en six fragments abordant le thème du départ.Comme des polaroids, ces instantanés poétiques marquent un arrêt sur image :le rêve, l'amour, le deuil et l'exil s'y croisent l'espace d'un moment."...et je reste seule derrière l'arbre.À attendre.Des rires qui ne seront jamais échangés,des mots qui ne seront jamais dits,des coeurs qui ne parleront pas ensemble,des corps qui ne s'écriront pas."

"Tousser des nuages sous une pergola en feu peut faire rire violet." "Au paradis, la peur du moustique n'exclut pas l'équidistance des rivières de marbre." "Un crapaud fourmille d'éléments binaires - tant que dure la beauté du potage."Retrouvez dans ce recueil les élucubrations poético-loufoques de l'auteur, agrémentées de photographies dans la même veine surréaliste décalée...

Mendacity Quirk Slipstream Snafu is a collection of 100 twenties, a form and mode of poetry created by Jackson Mac Low in 1989. Five stanzas of four lines each, these poems were composed spontaneously with a free-associational approach in a meditative state of mind. Utilizing little in the way of connective tissue, the poems leave a great deal of room for interpretation so that the reader is more an active participant in creating meaning from the text rather than merely being led along by the poet.

Between My Thoughts is Betty Kituyi's début poetry collection in the UK. Her poems are raw, filled with emotion and written with vulnerability. Kituyi's writing style is surrealist at heart: a sense of the poem remains, yet something about it evades all rational thought.

A new reading of Elizabeth Bishop's work ranging across archival, historical and theoretical materialsLinda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems. Drawing generously on Bishop's notebooks and letters, the book situates Bishop both in her historical and cultural context and in terms of her own writing process, where the years between beginning a poem and completing it, for which Bishop is legendary, are seen as a necessary part of their composition. The book begins by offering a new reading of Bishop's relationship with Marianne Moore and with modernism. Through her journeys to Europe Bishop, it is also argued, learned a great deal from visual artists and from surrealism. However the book also follows the way Bishop came back to memories of her childhood, developing ideas about narrative, in order to explore time, both the losses it demands and the connections it makes possible. The lines of connections are both those between Bishop and her contemporaries and her context and those she inscribed through her own work, suggesting how her poems incorporate a process of arrival and create new possibilities of meaning.Key Features- Draws on archival and historical material- Provides readings of Bishop's major poetry and prose in context- Draws on psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory- Connects the poems with their process of composition

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. <BR><BR>The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic.