Peter De Vries and SurrealismBucknell University Press, 1995 - 240 pagina's Peter De Vries and Surrealism rereads De Vries in the light of surrealism and argues that the novelist and poet devised a new comic form, surrealist farce. De Vries's style and narrative technique are often surrealistic, and he mentions surrealism and surrealists in all but two of his twenty-six books. Yet, in fifty years of commentary on De Vries, scarcely any notice has been taken of these surrealist elements. This study moves from literary biography and historiography, which establish De Vries's points of contact with surrealism, through textual analysis, which traces De Vries's working through modernism toward surrealism in his early writing, to a consideration of De Vries's mature works that takes into account their surrealist aspects and allusions. |
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... human faces of a passionate , suffering , unconscious humanity ' waiting to be born ' . . . present in the recent works of Picasso , and in the drawings of Henry Moore " as images capable of inspiring a humanist faith that would sustain ...
... human faces of a passionate , suffering , unconscious humanity ' waiting to be born ' . . . present in the recent works of Picasso , and in the drawings of Henry Moore " as images capable of inspiring a humanist faith that would sustain ...
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... human folly is bottomless . " 25 De Vries did not want to fasten readers into a diving bell , but he peered into depths : " The oblivious person , the fool , the man who slips on the banana peel is not funny in himself . There must be ...
... human folly is bottomless . " 25 De Vries did not want to fasten readers into a diving bell , but he peered into depths : " The oblivious person , the fool , the man who slips on the banana peel is not funny in himself . There must be ...
Pagina 145
... Human life " means " nothing . But that is not to say that it is not worth living . What does a Debussy Arabesque " mean , " or a rainbow or a rose ? A man delights in all of these , knowing himself to be no more — a wisp of music and a ...
... Human life " means " nothing . But that is not to say that it is not worth living . What does a Debussy Arabesque " mean , " or a rainbow or a rose ? A man delights in all of these , knowing himself to be no more — a wisp of music and a ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Literary Life of Peter De Vries | 26 |
Peter De Vries and 1930s Surrealism | 60 |
Copyright | |
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