14 Surreal Absurdities

In this book, no serious philosophies can be found. This is simply a collection of some of my more surreal and absurd stories, whose sole purpose is to entertain the eye and ear of each and every individual. C.J. Cala is the author of numerous “schizonautic” texts that are centered on exploring the relativity of holistic reality.

The Wizard Dandy awoke to an absurd world.C.J. Cala is the author of 14 Surreal Absurdities and Four Different Faces. His philosophical works can be found in the book 23.MANY OF C.J. CALA'S WORKS ARE AVAILABLE TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FOR FREE THROUGH GOOGLE BOOKS (PDF) OR GOOGLE PLAY (EPUB).

"Tallahassee Snow is a short-story about an unlikable character named Stephen Shawl, whose existential knack for the absurd ends up proving too much for the people and places that he occupies. Part psychological, part philosophical, and part surreal, Tallahassee Snow looks to examine the various social illusions that secretly underlie the lives of us all." - C.J. Cala C.J. Cala is the author of 14 Surreal Absurdities and Four Different Faces. His philosophical works can be found in the book 23. MANY OF C.J. CALA'S WORKS ARE AVAILABLE TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FOR FREE THROUGH GOOGLE BOOKS (PDF) OR GOOGLE PLAY (EPUB).

First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the "new Alice"), Gisèle Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales freighted with transgressive humor and a pervading sense of threatened feminine identity. "Gisèle Prassinos' tone is unique," claimed André Breton, "all the poets are jealous of it. Swift lowers his eyes, Sade shuts his candy box." The Arthritic Grasshopper and Other Tales gathers together all of her literary prose from 1934 to 1944, an assortment of anxious dream tales drawn from journals and plaquettes, introduced and illustrated by such admirers as Paul Éluard, Man Ray and Hans Bellmer. The 72 stories include such longer, novella-length tales as "Sondue," "The Executioner" and "The Dream."Gisèle Prassinos (1920-2015) was born in Istanbul of a Greek father and an Italian mother. One summer day at the age of 13 and in a fit of boredom, she began to compose short absurdist vignettes, filling up pages of paper with tales of sarcastic stains, arrogant hair and liquid frogs. Her first collection was published in 1935, with a preface by Paul Éluard and a frontispiece portrait by Man Ray. With World War II, Prassinos stopped publishing, but in 1954 she returned to literature with a series of novels and stories still imbued with a Surrealist sensibility.

Some, who have become unshackled, say they have lost their chains. Others say they have found their freedom. C.J. Cala is the author of 14 Surreal Absurdities and Four Different Faces. His philosophical works can be found in the book 23. ALL OF C.J. CALA'S WORKS ARE AVAILABLE TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FOR FREE THROUGH GOOGLE BOOKS (PDF) AND GOOGLE PLAY (EPUB).

mother dandy sat on her sofa, watching the television spark and sizzle in light and sound when suddenly she noticed something snap on the screen.C.J. Cala is the author of 14 Surreal Absurdities and Four Different Faces. His philosophical works can be found in the book 23.

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism

This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational. Its ways are unconventional: weaving along its path one finds UFOs and fairies, quantum mechanics, analytic philosophy, history, mathematics, and depth psychology. The enterprise of constructing a coherent story out of these incommensurable disciplines is exploratory. But if the experiment works, at the end these disparate threads will come together to unveil a startling scenario about the nature of reality. The payoff is handsome: a reason for hope, a boost for the imagination, and the promise of a meaningful future. Yet this book may confront some of your dearest notions about truth and reason. Its conclusions cannot be dismissed lightly, because the evidence this book compiles and the philosophy it leverages are solid in the orthodox, academic sense. ,

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during his early Paris days (1928 - late 1930s) that James Knowlson dubbed them his "Joyce years." But Surrealism and Surrealists rivaled Joyce for Beckett’s early and continuing attention, if not affection, so that Raymond Federman called 1929-45 Beckett’s "surrealist period." Considering both claims, this volume delves deeper into each argument by obscuring the boundaries between theses differentiating studies. These received wisdoms largely maintain that Beckett’s Joycean connection and influence developed a negative impact in his early works, and that Beckett only found his voice when he broke the connection after Joyce’s death. Beckett came to accept his own inner darkness as his subject matter, writing in French and using a first-person narrative voice in his fiction and competing personal voices in his plays. Critics have mainly viewed Beckett’s Surrealist connections as roughly co-terminus with Joycean ones, and ultimately of little enduring consequence. Surreal Beckett argues that both early influences went much deeper for Beckett as he made his own unique way forward, transforming them, particularly Surrealist ones, into resources that he drew upon his entire career. Ultimately, Beckett endowed his characters with resources sufficient to transcend limitations their surreal circumstances imposed upon them.

My life: as careless As a drifting cloud, coming In and out of air. . . . C.J. Cala is the author of 14 Surreal Absurdities, Four Different Faces, Three Poems, Seeds of Snow, Careless Clouds, and Boy Pussy. His philosophical works can be found in the book 23.