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Surrealist must-reads 04/19/26(Sun)11:37:08 No.25220104

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Surrealist must-reads Anonymous 04/19/26(Sun)11:37:08 No.25220104 Archived

After Circe+Gravity's Rainbow wombo combo (+Alice in Wonderland/Hunting of the Snark a few years back) I think I found my new love. What are the surrealist must reads? I already have Maldoror and Burroughs on my reading list, but is there anything else I should know about?

Anonymous
04/19/26(Sun)12:44:32 No.25220233

Anonymous 04/19/26(Sun)12:44:32 No.25220233

You should know about Boris Vian

Anonymouṡ
04/20/26(Mon)05:45:37 No.25221748

Anonymouṡ 04/20/26(Mon)05:45:37 No.25221748

>>25220104
You could just look up the original early-20th-century French guys. But you might not like them. I like Alice In Wonderland but I find them annoying in any dose larger than about a paragraph.

André Breton is the most famous one isn't he? Wrote things like "The White-Haired Revolver" and "Soluble Fish" (‘Soluble Fish’ is actually quite a good title but I bet the book is annoying).

Anonymouṡ
04/20/26(Mon)05:55:10 No.25221761

Anonymouṡ 04/20/26(Mon)05:55:10 No.25221761

>>25220104
You could also try Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme. Quite famous and I don't know what you would call it if not surreal.

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)07:22:45 No.25221849

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)07:22:45 No.25221849

>>25220104
Ubu Roi by our honourable Janny. You’ll love Pere Ubu like you loved Gargantua