Word: surrealisme
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A: No, I wouldn't say that. I don't think any of my characters are based on anyone I knew . . . well, one character in Catch-22 is based on somebody I knew. Hungry Joe is based on a guy who was named Joe Crenkow. But, otherwise characters--they tend...
Moreau was Matisse's teacher, but he is not an artist who fits into the formalist canons of "modernism." Indeed, for 50 years it has been de rigueur to reject his work as florid and sickly, despite its demonstrable influence on surrealism and its frequently astonishing beauty. That beauty...
Novelist Just finesses most of the moral and artistic questions that could be asked about his book and his character's situation. The reader will find himself wavering between conflicting assessments: the story is really a disturbing piece of surrealism or it is a neat con job. The compromise...
All this is done with such compression and compassion that the reader continues to identify with Richard even after ambiguous clues bring his reliability as a witness into doubt. When life with Meg drifts too much toward surrealism and subjectivity, Richard's vignettes of life in the library help...
Tristana. "Sex without religion is like an egg without salt." Luis Bunuel--probably the most fanatical anti-cleric in the history of Iberian civilization--said that, with characteristic lucidity, of this his most lucid film. But it really is lucid: for once, there's no need to pardon this aging...