From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature Contributor(s): Ungureanu, Delia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501333194 ISBN-13: 9781501333194 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 809.911 |
LCCN: 2017018010 |
Series: Literatures as World Literature |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.41 lbs) 354 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 Tlön: 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 Tlön 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 García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk in the 21st century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ungureanu, Delia: - Delia Ungureanu is Assistant Director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. |