Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different… — Michael Richardson Fantastic 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… — Michael Richardson Language 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… — Michael Richardson Change 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… — Michael Richardson Breton 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.… — Michael Richardson Fantastic 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,… — Michael Richardson Fiction 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… — Michael Richardson Art 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… — Michael Richardson Art 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… — Michael Richardson Books 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… — Michael Richardson Gothic 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… — Michael Richardson Fantastic 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… — Michael Richardson Imagination Copy Share Image
“Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.” — Michael Richardson Fantastic Copy Share Image
“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the… — Michael Richardson Books Copy Share Image
