Word: surrealistes
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...lack of the good-time-Charleyism of San Francisco. While New York probably has more nightclub activity than any European city, it cannot touch the vulgarity of Hamburg or the competitive, nuder-than-thou spirit of Paris, where G-strings are worn only by fiddles, and one hilariously surrealist female statue-at the Port du Salut-has a heart-shaped chamber carved in her left breast, in which two white mice play...
...show was organized by Poet Andre Breton, 64, who wrote the first surrealist manifesto in 1924 and still presides over a dogged group of followers in Paris. Breton chose the artists to be represented from all over Europe and the U.S. Gentle, 73-year-old Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp, who 37 years ago gave up painting in favor of chess, helped hang the exhibition at the gallery. The paintings were anywhere from 44 years to a few months old. showing that there is life of a sort in the old movement...
...reasons for Zazie's serious appeal to critics are complex. For one thing, Author Queneau, a onetime surrealist deeply concerned with language, tries to close the gap between literary and spoken speech in the Zazie novel, runs words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings. Others see in Zazie a device of savage social satire. Says New Wave Movie Director Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact...
...approach. Such massive evil can scarcely be conveyed by facts, figures and chronology. What is needed is another Dante with a genius for portraying hell, or a new Wagner who can translate horror into myth and spell out the dread meanings in a Götterdämmerung finale. Surrealist imagination, not research, may one day tell the definitive story; in the meantime, there are books...
...Still fresh and unwilted by the heat are Little Mary Sunshine, a crisp, straight-faced spoof of the Grand Old Operettas; The Balcony, Jean Genet's surrealist universe ensconced in a brothel; The Connection, a pad full of Pirandelloish characters waiting, not for Godot, but the heroin fix; and a neat double dose of disenchantment-Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square...