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Doubting and Other Chance Encounters

Posted on April 18, 2012by Deborah Barlow

Alexander Trauner, Street scene in Paris, 1930 (Photo: Trauner Estate) The Surrealists were fascinated by chance, by the spontaneous event that might unlock the unconscious. They wandered the streets and let those chance encounters play out. AndrĂ© Breton‘s novel Nadja is based on just such a random encounter, and the character Nadja quickly comes to […]

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