Surreal South ’09
Surreal South ’09 by Laura Benedict is a collection published by Press 53 in 2009, featuring 372 pages in English. This anthology presents a diverse range of stories that explore themes of unpredictability and authenticity, emphasizing the transformative nature of narrative. The collection invites readers to engage with tales that challenge conventional storytelling, focusing on the concept of apocalypse as a revelation that disrupts the old order and introduces chaos.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of fiction that delves into the realms of fantasy and surrealism. The anthology showcases the work of various authors who respond to the call for literary innovation, encouraging a departure from traditional narratives. This edition offers a unique perspective on the interplay between sublimity and disorder, inviting exploration of the unexpected and the profound within the stories presented.
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“Sublimity, as we choose to define it, is that quality a story possesses when it is, in its entirety, completely unpredictable as well as completely inevitable and authentic…. A story-a real story, of the type that we’ve gathered here; not the mock-stories, the painless, bloodless vignettes that make up so much of today’s “literary” fiction-involves apocalypse. Apocalypse means a revelation (the literal meaning of the word apocalypse is a “lifting of the veil”), and a very specific type of revelation: the destruction of an old order, followed by a time of disorder and chaos, and the replacement of the old order by a new and entirely different order…. Sublimity and apocalypse. Anti-rationality and surreality. The call for the literary artist is nothing less than to reveal and remake everything; and the writers whose work you are about to experience have boldly answered that call. We invite you to abandon to its well-deserved fate the wreckage of the rational, and to enjoy.” – from the Introduction, by Laura & Pinckney Benedict
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