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My years of militant surrealism
A letter by Luis Buñuel to Paramount Pictures. Any resemblance to real people is purely intentional. This first appeared at The New Inquiry. Spotted Bull by Bill Traylor. TO: Ms. Alice Velotta,...
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I was never a surrealist
A letter by Frida Kahlo to herself, written in Detroit in August 1932. Any resemblance to real people is purely intentional. This first appeared at The New Inquiry. Turquoise mosaic mask, Aztec/Mixtec...
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A sword in the arm of the statue of liberty as if nearly stretched aloft
A letter by Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenská. A sword in the arm of the Statue of Liberty is considered the only surrealist image in his novel Amerika. Any resemblance to real people is purely...
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The vastness of the self unpeopled in exile
A letter by Henry James to his mother, five months before ending his European travels and moving back to the United States. Any resemblance to real people is purely intentional. This first appeared...
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Landscape of the bleeding crowd
A letter by Federico García Lorca to his friend Regino Sainz de la Maza, guitarist and compatriot in Spain’s ‘Generación del ’27.’ The United States, where Lorca enrolled at Columbia University in...
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