From Paris to Tlön

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.

• 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

What distinguishes this book from a great deal of other scholarly material is the way in which [Ungureanu] knits together the anecdotes and vignettes into a seamless overall picture of the spread of surrealist ideas between people. ... This is a book for a diverse readership. I imagine a reader new to surrealism who would be drawn into its world and set off afterward to find out more. There are enough passages of quoted surrealist writing and images included to tempt the new reader to a greater engagement. I can imagine a scholar of surrealism finding in it surprising new connections between familiar people and places. I can also imagine any researcher of modern and contemporary literature who might be inspired by the method to take an angled view of other literatures from a fresh perspective.