Quotes by Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

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Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words prope — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost l — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality act — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of re — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found no — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction th — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creativ — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fic — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently th — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a wa — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World