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„Az archívumok igazi aranybányák”. A szürrealizmus titkos története
“Archives Are Real Goldmines”: a Secret History of Surrealism

Author(s): Delia Ungureanu
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, History of Art
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: oneiric literature; poetics of plagiarism; sociology of literature; surrealism; world literature

Summary/Abstract: Delia Ungureanu reveals the methodological and theoretical framework that stood behind her book about Surrealism: From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature. Started initially as a project dealing with oneiric literature, following a dream structure, it grew into a book discussing the circulation of Surrealist ideas in world literature, due to findings in different archives. Coming from an academic background dominated by the aesthetic principle when dealing with literature, the author developed at first a methodology based on the sociology of literature promoted by Pierre Bourdieu, then a world literature approach present in the research of the Harvard Institute for World Literature. The article highlights the background of the author’s research concerning the surrealist connections of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov and Orhan Pamuk.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 33-39
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Hungarian