LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto”
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James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
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Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Surrealism officially began with Dadaist writer André Breton’s 1924 Surrealist manifesto, but the movement formed as early as 1917, inspired by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, who captured street locations with a hallucinatory quality.
Detailed explanation-2: -Officially consecrated in Paris in 1924 with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism by the poet and critic André Breton (1896–1966), Surrealism became an international intellectual and political movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Written by André Breton on October 15, 1924, it was a culmination of the writings of the surrealist group and sought to free one’s mind from the past and from everyday reality to arrive at truths one has never known.