FYSP 151 - Surrealist Prose of the Americas

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 SS, Wri

The founder of Surrealism, André Breton, believed in dreams, poetry, painting, and cinema, but despised the novel; nevertheless, in North and South America, the movement also inspired experimental approaches to narration. After introductory texts by Breton, Aragon, and Benjamin, we will move to Latin Americans Bombal, Rulfo, and Cortázar, and North Americans West, Brautigan, and Barthelme, then the magical realism of García Márquez and the rejection of realism by Pynchon, Acker, and Vollmann. Enrollment Limit: 14.
Instructor: P. O’Connor