From Paris to Tlön : surrealism as world literature
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From Paris to Tlön : surrealism as world literature
（Literatures as world literature）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
- : PB
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 Tloen: 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 Tloen 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 Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk in the 21st century.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
1. Intellectual Networks and Surrealist Objects
2. On the Road to Establishment: Surrealism in the 1930s
3. Pierre Menard the Sur-realist
4. Surrealism on the New York Market
5. The Battle Over the New World
6. From Dulita to Lolita
7. The Ghosts of Surrealism in the World Novel
Bibliography
Index
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