Surreal books

“ليس ثمة من سفينة مثل الكتاب .. تنقلنا بحرية بعيدًا عن الأرض .. - إيميلي ديكنسون”

Jungho Lee is a Korean artist and illustrator based in Seoul. He creates surreal illustrations incorporating books into our everyday surroundings and is also in the process of working on his own picture book. He creates hand-drawn images that are then scanned and layered digitally, citing surrealists such as René Magritte as a major influence. Jungho Lee was recently named the overall professional winner of the World Illustration Awards 2016.

An alphabetical guide to graphic designers influenced by Surrealism and to some key Surrealist concepts.

In Japan I spent my weekends traversing the country by train, absorbing myself in books set in Japan. Stories filled with geisha, kimono and salarymen.

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While the average person reads 4 books per year, some people, like Elizabeth Sagan, take this hobby to a whole new level. She calls herself a “book whisperer” and, after looking at her work, it becomes evident why. Using only her library, Elizabeth can turn any scenario into magical masterpieces that amaze us.

Reading a Haruki Murakami novel is an immersive experience. His book covers are, too. Get inspired by this collection of dozens of surreal Murakami book covers.

A list of books recommended by novelist Haruki Murakami, with work by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Raymond Chandler. Looking for more celebrity reading lists & book recommendations? Click through to the blog for books recommended by great writers, musicians, entrepreneurs and more! #harukimurakami #murakami #writers #scifi #surrealism #magicrealism #books #reading #readinglist #booklist

Very likely, the war years did offer Samuel Beckett images and experiences that, stripped of context, he would make universally powerful, but speculatively reconstructing the context to then color it with the melodrama Beckett assiduously pared away hardly seems a helpful exercise. It is the reductio ad absurdum of this strange form of fiction that would have us consume our literary heroes in a conveniently palatable sauce. We should read our great authors, not mythologize them.