Word: surrealisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was also Surrealism, which for many Catholic kids with artistic ambitions was the door out of orthodoxy. Kelley's work is larded with references to early eccentrics from the Surrealist pantheon, like the suicidal dandy Jacques Vache and the writers Raymond Roussel and the Comte de Lautreamont. On the...
This bit of surrealism is, however, only one of the fey charms of the work, which opened off-Broadway last week. Playwright Donald Margulies, a 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sight Unseen, is, as usual, absolutely fearless in going for the offbeat. A long-dead aunt, for example, returns to...
The stories in Strange Pilgrims are remarkable stylistically as well as thematically. As Garcia Marquez narrates in his preface, these stories had a gestation of almost twenty years. This long travail might have made his ideas stale, but instead they seem surprisingly fresh and unaffected. Garcia Marquez's touch is...
Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and...
Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and...