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• s  characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions

• As a writer, he has turned out seven novels, ranging from biting political satires to surrealistic folklore, and been translated into 36 languages.
• Miyuki Hatoyama, a former actress, dancer and singer in the hugely popular Takarazuka Revue all-female theater group, wrote in a book published last year about her surrealistic .
• A British exhibition sums up the achievements of the 20th century with surrealistic humor.

• phantasmagoric
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News & Articles

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• Compassion, not perfection, makes a great lawyer
  Franz Kafka wrote a classic satirical and surrealistic novel, “The Trial,” about the bureaucratic and flawed legal system. In his story, Josef K., a bank clerk, wakes up one day and finds himself arrested. From the first-page arrest to the end of the novel, the story is what you would expect from an author who turned a character in one of his short stories into a cockroach. read more
  June 21, 2013 - Standard-Examiner

Quotes

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• Jared Leto in Toronto Sun
  It's really a surrealistic love story that takes place in the past, the present and the future,Leto said. "It's a very unique film. I play 12 different versions of the same person, including a 120-year-old man. It was wild."
• Clifford Alexander, Jr. in New York Times
  Well, I don't see it as something that is patronizing,Mr. Alexander said, "and I think people of all backgrounds - white, black, Native American, Latin - can see that this is more surrealistic than in any other sense, when you are behind...
• Quincy Jones in TeleText
  Jones, 76, said the death was "very surrealistic and a painful process".