Book contents
- A History of the Surrealist Novel
- A History of the Surrealist Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Marvellous Beginnings
- II Transgression and Excess
- III Science, Alchemy, Nature
- IV Transnational Surrealism
- Chapter 16 Nature and Surrealism in the Latin American Novel of the Tropics
- Chapter 17 Surrealism, Existentialism, and Fictions of Blackness
- Chapter 18 Social Critique in the Japanese Post-War Surrealist Novel
- Chapter 19 The World of the Surrealist Novel
- Chapter 20 Feminist-Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel
- Afterword
- Index
Afterword
Novels Eclipsed by the Sun of Poetry?1
from IV - Transnational Surrealism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2023
- A History of the Surrealist Novel
- A History of the Surrealist Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Marvellous Beginnings
- II Transgression and Excess
- III Science, Alchemy, Nature
- IV Transnational Surrealism
- Chapter 16 Nature and Surrealism in the Latin American Novel of the Tropics
- Chapter 17 Surrealism, Existentialism, and Fictions of Blackness
- Chapter 18 Social Critique in the Japanese Post-War Surrealist Novel
- Chapter 19 The World of the Surrealist Novel
- Chapter 20 Feminist-Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
It isn’t that simple. The desire to make an imaginary world appear ‘possible’ – and for this world to be evoked by language – is the double origin of novelistic writing (as well as reading). In his introduction to Stendhal et les problèmes du roman, Georges Blin described this paradox as ‘an impossibility that can possibly happen to me [as a reader]’.2 The reader of a novel must conjure up mental images of a world described through the medium of language; in the process of writing a novel, the author must also become a reader of his or her own pages in order to pursue a story which can represent a ‘possible’ world.
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- A History of the Surrealist Novel , pp. 364 - 369Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023