Peter De Vries and surrealism
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
Print Book, English, ©1995
Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses, Lewisburg, London, ©1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
240 pages ; 24 cm
9780838753118, 0838753116
32013585
1. Introduction
2. The Literary Life of Peter De Vries
3. Peter De Vries and 1930s Surrealism
4. A Reading of But Who Wakes the Bugler?
5. Surrealizations: The Unofficial Career of Peter De Vries
6. In "The Extravagant Vein in American Humor."