The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.


Chapter XI: The Self-Satisfied Age - The Revolt of the Masses (1929)

José Ortega y Gasset Quotes

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others...

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others...

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others...

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others...