Vivienne Brough-Evans is an independent scholar, UK.

• Foreword by Krzysztof FijalkowskiAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsGlossaryPart I: The Breakthrough of Dissident Surrealism1 The Collège de Sociologie and Dissident SurrealismPart II: The Explosion of Surrealism in Hispanic America and the Divin Fou of Natural Time2 Hispanic American and Caribbean Surrealism and the Colligative of Alejo Carpentier’s lo real maravilloso3 Postcolonial Dissident Surrealist Mediums: Geotemporal Conflations of the Isles of Paradise in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost StepsPart III: The Manifestation of Surrealism in Britain and a Sociological Divin Fou4 The Brief Moment of British Surrealism, Its Social and Divergent Paths5 Modalities of the Female Surrealist: The Therianthrope of the Sacred Quest in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing TrumpetPart IV: The Rise of Romanian Surrealism and Amour Divin Fou6 The Balkans and the Romanian Avant-Garde: Communism in South-Eastern Europe7 Europe’s Eastern Surrealist Meanings: The Gift of the Primordial Waters in Gellu Naum’s ZenobiaPart V: Surrealism’s Revolutionary Consciousness: The Collège de Sociologie’s Extensions to Surrealist Theory and Reading International Surrealism8 Theorem, Theorie, TheōreōIndicative Publication History

'Provocative, dissident, surprising, international in focus, historically grounded: Vivienne Brough Evans' book is everything one would wish for in a study of literary surrealism and avant-garde prose. It will help redraw the map of twentieth-century literary history.' Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK'Through highly original readings and inspired conjunctions of literary sources, Vivienne Brough-Evans has wrought a surprising, rich and thoughtful study; she has most usefully extended the borders of surrealism as they have been drawn till now, and re-oriented concepts of the sacred and its role in imagining and making community.' Marina Warner, CBE, President, British Comparative Literature Association, UK