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Zusatztext Delia Ungureanu’s book demonstrates that a transnational approach to literary history can help us ground comparative readings of texts and reveal hidden intertextual links. From Paris to Tlön is a major contribution to our understanding of the circuits and networks through which surrealism became part of the world literature canon, and it is a model for further research on world literature as well as for literary history. Informationen zum Autor Delia Ungureanu is Assistant Director of the Institute for World Literature and Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Vorwort Explores the global circulation of surrealism and traces its secret and unexpected legacy in writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, and Orhan Pamuk. Zusammenfassung Best International Debut in 2017 (awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association) Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities (awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest) Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction—including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the archives of Harvard’s Widener and Houghton libraries, where she has found that Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov were greatly indebted to surrealism for the creation of the pivotal characters who brought them world fame: Pierre Menard and Lolita. In From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature , Ungureanu explores the networks of transmission and transformation that turned an avant-garde Parisian movement into a global literary phenomenon. From Paris to Tlön gives a fresh account of surrealism’s surprising success, exploring the process of artistic transfer by which the surrealist object rapidly evolved from a purely poetic conception to a mainstay of surrealist visual art and then a key element in late modernist and postmodern fiction, from Borges and Nabokov to such disparate writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk in the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Intellectual Networks and Surrealist Objects2. On the Road to Establishment: Surrealism in the 1930s3. Pierre Menard the Sur -realist4. Surrealism on the New York Market5. The Battle Over the New World6. From Dulita to Lolita7. The Ghosts of Surrealism in the World NovelBibliographyIndex...
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Delia Ungureanu is Assistant Director of the Institute for World Literature and Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
