“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” – Salvador Dali
Origin:
The 1920s experienced paradoxical times on different parts of the globe. Most importantly, it was a time of angst, creativity, confusion, irrationality, skirmishes, industrialization, and political upheaval. It was the ‘Roaring Twenties’ or the ‘Jazz Age’ for the US and Canada while other parts of ...
ASTON: More or less exactly what you...
DAVIES: That's it ... that's what I'm getting at is ... I mean, what sort of jobs ... (Pause.)
ASTON: Well, there's things like the stairs ... and the ... the bells...
DAVIES: But it'd be a matter ... wouldn't it ... it'd be a matter of a broom ... isn't it?
- Dialogue between Aston and Davies in The Caretaker, a talked-about Harold Pinter play.
The Theatre of the Absurd belongs to a genre of absurdist fiction, writ...