Surrealism in Romanian and Serbian literature

Abstract

Surrealism in the literary criticism is often considered the French avant-garde movement and the emergence of this movement in other countries is seen as an imitation of the French one, especially if addressed to Eastern European countries. This article proposes to address comparative analysis of the surrealist movement in Romani and Serbia, focusing on hictorical and literary development and differences that the movement had in these two countries. Altough both emerged under the strong French influence, surrealism in these two countries didn’t follow the French movement’s beaten path.

Keywords

• surrealism
• psychoanalysis
• pure expression
• institutionalization
• open work