“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.” — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition,… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
