Chapter 42 Surrealism

I was going to nod and walk away, but my knees were shaking too much; I wanted to go to the stairs, but in the end I moved sideways like a crab towards the pot step by step.Once I was fully in view of her, she suddenly plunged a sharp knife into my rear.With a scream of pain, I plunged into the scalding soup, and in a piercing pain, I froze and suffered with my companions: a carrot and two shallots. After a rumbling sound, there were bursts of bangs and cracks.At this point, I found myself standing by the pot, stirring the soup.I clearly saw myself in the soup, with my legs up in the air, cooking heartily like a piece of bone-in beef.I added a little salt and pepper to the soup and ladled it into a granite dish.The taste of the soup is far inferior to the thick and tender fish, but the taste of ordinary soup is not bad enough to resist the cold weather.

From a speculative standpoint, I really don't know which one is the real me.Knowing that I had a piece of obsidian in the hole, I looked around for it to use as a mirror.There, right there, in the old place, hanging by the bat nest.I looked in the mirror and the first thing I saw was the face of the Abbot of Santa Barbara de Tataras smiling at me, mockingly.dean His face gradually faded away, and I saw the huge eyes and antennae of the queen bee again.Bee Dynasty I winked and changed into my appearance.Perhaps because of the black surface of the obsidian, that face was much better looking than mine.

Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Aid (1976) Surrealism is more used in art for viewing, such as film and television, and from this perspective, it is easier to define it.This form is less common in literary works than in film and television works.Dali, Duchamp, Marguerite and Ernst are very famous figures in the history of modern art.However, during the 1820s and 1830s, a literary school emerged, which broke off from the experiments of early modernism and Dadaism.Indeed, the main theoretical founder of Surrealism was a poet named Andrew Brighton.This theory, he claimed, was based on "a belief that certain literary forms are suggestive, but hitherto neglected, a belief in the infinite fascination of dreams and the justice of the human mind."

Leonora Carrington treated the art of viewing and the art of language equally, which is rare among surrealist writers.Recently, the Serpentina Gallery in London exhibited her oil paintings, which aroused strong repercussions.Her novels and short stories have been published in several languages.There is a long interval between works and works, which lasted for decades.These works also began to attract attention, especially among women's rights activists.She was born in England and lived in the great age of surrealism in pre-war Paris.In Paris, she lived with Max Ernst for several years before moving to Mexico and the United States.Today, her work is seen as a precursor to postmodernism, especially among women artists and writers such as Angela Carter and Janet Winterson.They use surreal artistic effects to overturn conventional thinking.

Surrealism is not the same as magical realism, although the two are inextricably linked.This point has been discussed in the twenty-fourth section.In magical realism, there is always a close connection between reality and fantasy.The writer uses impossible facts to describe the extreme strange events in modern history.In surrealist works, the metaphor becomes reality, and the intellectual world and common sense are all wiped out.The source of favorite artistic analogies or compositions of surrealist writers is often dreams.Because in dreams, as Freud said, the subconscious vividly reflects people's inner desires and fears.This amazing narrative effect is not bound by the logic of the waking state. It is generally believed that the first great surreal novel in English is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is a novel about dreams.Its influence is clearly discernible in Carrington's The Hearing Aid.Here, the author takes a highly realistic approach to imagined reality, interweaving the brutal eccentricity with the domestic antics.The face in the obsidian mirror is very similar to the image in the eyes of the always giggling Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The narrator is a ninety-year-old English lady named Marion Littleby, who apparently lives in Mexico with her son Galahad and daughter-in-law Muriel.Marion is hard of hearing, but one day her friend Camilla gave her a very sensitive hearing aid.With a hearing aid, she heard her son and daughter-in-law discussing sending her to a nursing home.This part of the novel is very amusingly written, in a very absurd way.We might as well regard it as the inner monologue of this always smart but recently confused old lady: As we all know, time flies.Whether time will return in the same way is unknown.I have a friend who I haven't mentioned because he's not around.He told me that a pink universe intersects with a blue universe like two swarms of bees.After two different colored beads collide, a miracle will happen.It's all about timing, though I know I can't explain it.

However, when Marion crossed the threshold of his own family, things suddenly changed.For example, at her residence: The only real furniture was a rattan chair and a table.The rest is all painting.I mean, furniture is painted all over the walls.It was drawn so realistically that I was blinded at first glance.I tried to open the painted wardrobe and the bookshelves full of books.One window was open and the curtains fluttered in the breeze.Or should I put it this way, if it's true, the curtains would blow in the wind... All this furniture is so one-dimensional and strangely oppressive, like your nose hitting a glass door.

The nursing home was run by a rather authoritarian born-again Christian.The narrator and her friend are rebellious against Christians when they see a painting on the dining room wall of a nun blinking mysteriously.A nun was the abbot of an eighteenth-century monastery who became a saint after her death.In fact, she worshiped the mother or fertility goddess, which is not unrelated to the worship of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.Aphrodite appears to the narrator as the incarnation of the queen bee.The story later developed into a new pagan and feminist revision of the Holy Grail legend, interspersed with apocalyptic natural events, namely new ice ages and earthquakes, to highlight the theme.A crack in the tower reveals a flight of stairs.The narrator goes down the stairs to the world of the underworld, where he sees himself stirring in a cauldron, which is exactly the same as the scene described in the selected text.The protagonist is both observer and observed, cook and "meat in the pot", which is a typical dream situation. Similarly, details of domestic life ("I added a little salt to the soup and sprinkled a little Pepper") and the grotesque visions of cannibalism, brutality, and grotesqueness can only be found in dreams.The above-mentioned humorous brushwork is the best representative of surrealist art.Without this humorous device, the whole work would be grotesque, self-absorbed, and the result could only be disgusting.Fortunately, Leonora Carrington is both imaginative and witty.