Michael Richardson

Quotes

• “By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost l...”
• “The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality act...”
• “We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fic...”
• “Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction th...”
• “Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for ...”
• “Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate ...”