Surrealism has long been seen as a movement of love and liberation. In this study, Hal Foster reads from its other, darker side - as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.

In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange -- and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent.

Showcases discoveries and inventions such as: An African mud-sculpture representing a naked child; a road-mender's tool which, when activated by the weather, creates a mosaic of human teeth; an aquarium in which human's can breathe and in which a depilated cat is seen stimulating the partially decomposed head of Danton.

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people.

The third volume reprint of George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

Offers a mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes.

In this first-hand account, the author, closely associated with the radical and transforming movement from its earliest days, records and traces Dada's history from its inception around 1916, in wartime Zurich, to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s.

MC Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an achitect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confromtation with the limitations of our sensory perception.

Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies.

Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by an often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel.

This study of Salvador Dali's work asks what accounts for his popularity as an artist. Is it the accessibility of his imagery or his talent as a self-publicist?

A collection of author's stories, including Library of Babel .

Bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice's influence on the Beat poet, Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad.

Combines science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the works of the pioneering surrealists, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. This work serves as a contribution to the history of photography in the twentieth century.

After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war.

This is Alastair Gray's first collection of short stories. This edition includes a new story, Inches In a Column , that was lost at the time of original publication. He is the author of Lanark , Why Scots Should Rule Scotland and won the Whitbread Prize for Poor Things .

A collection of images from an American artist. It includes everything from experiments in anthropomorphism to the depiction of the different range of human psychology and emotion.