Related Links

Surprises and delights await.  Here are some Magical Realism , Surrealism, and Dada website links of interest with summaries.


Isabel Allende

http://www.isabelallende.com/
This is Isabel Allende's own site and is quite comprehensive.  Nicely designed, fun, and informative.  It is curious and interesting to see a writer writing about herself.


Jorge Luis Borges

http://www.literatura.org/Borges/Borges.html
A site in Spanish, which has a great collection of Borges images.  Also, the site offers a brief biography, a bibliography of works by Borges, and links to other Borges sites.

http://themodernword.com/borges/
Author homepage. Interviews, criticism, biography, music, etc. (Everything Borges!)

http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/english.htm
This research-oriented page is maintained by the Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation in Aarhus, Denmark. This page, which can also be accessed in Spanish and French, includes biography, bibliography, history, recent critical works, reviews, teaching and research guides, and connections to Variaciones, a trilingual journal dedicated to Borges studies. 

http://www.fst.com.ar/
This web page, in Spanish, associated with the Fundación San Telmo, a foundation dedicated to Argentinian culture, offers a biographical sketch, a bibliography, and some information on Borges's collaborative work.


dada/Surrealism

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/index.html
This web page, established by the International Dada Archives at the University of Iowa, offers historical and philosophical background information for Dada and Surrealism.  The page also serves as a guide for the resources of the archive, pro

vides information on artists associated with the movement, and provides links to other web pages associated with Dada.

http://www.hlla.com/reference/surreal.html
Women artists--Dada and Surrealism. A history with links to information on artists such as Man Ray, Berenice Abbott, Meret Oppenheim, and Leonor Fini

Salvador Dali

http://www.sagemore.com/dali.html
This online poster shop offers several Dali images including "Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach," Vision of a Face," "The Persistence of Memory," "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus," and "Swans Reflecting Elephants." 

http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org
The official site of the Salvador Dali museum, St.Petersburg, Florida. 2004 Centennial--Celebrating 100 years of Dali. Biography, online store, etc.

Gabriel García Márquez

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html
The official Nobel prize web page.  Do "Quick Search" of  "Marquez" on left side of screen.  This site offers bibliographies of books both by and about García Márquez.  Also, it offers links to news stories about the author.  This page offers visitors the opportunity to set up links to their own GGM sites. 

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/
Gabriel García Márquez: Macondo--Author homepage. Criticism, magical realism, FAQs, music, etc. Lots of links.

Franz Kafka

http://www.kafka.org
The Kafka Project. An effort to "collect all Kafka texts in the original form according to the manuscripts, and their translations from the critical edition--with all varients." Archive of quotes, etc.

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
Links to biographies, works online, internet movie database, photo album, etc.

Rene Magritte

http://www.mgritte.com
The Magritte site. Images for sale, biography.

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Magrit.html
Milky Way Gallery--Rene Magritte. Thumbnail gallery and biography. Link to the Pazzo Gallery and the Surrealist Gallery, featuring artists such as Francis Bacon, Dali, Magritte, Munch, Giorgio de Chirico, and Yves Tanguy.

http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hthl/etuds/brown/aagallery.html
Go here.  A wonderful page that includes "The Interpretation of Dreams" and "Golconda." The commentary on each painting presents key concepts for understanding Magritte and other surrealists.  Of especial note is an excerpt from one of Magritte's letters in which he insists that he does not paint for posterity.  If you click back to the front page of the gallery, you are provided a brief synopsis of Magritte's surrealist philosophy, a chronology of his life, and a brief bibliography. 


Pablo Neruda

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html
The official Nobel prize web page.  Do "Quick Search" of "Neruda" on left side of screen.  This site offers bibliographies of books both by and about Neruda, as with the entries for García Márquez.  Similarly,  it also offers links to news stories about the author.  This page offers visitors the opportunity to set up links to their own Neruda sites. 


Meret Oppenheim

http://users.ntr.net/~pslover/oppenheim.html
Brief biography and images of the artist and "Breakfast in Fur" (1936).

Ramon Gomez de la Serna

http://www.centre-lecture.com/home/auteur.php3?id_auteur=146
10 articles in French.

http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/G/Gomezdel.html

Russian Formalism

http://www.shef.ac.uk/k-zbinden/russian.htm
a short introduction including history, definitions, critiques, and legacies.

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/russian_formalism.html
An essay with links to more information on Roman Jakobson, Prague School of Structuralism, and New Criticism, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Formalism
Encyclopedia with links.