Sufism and Surrealism

Description

In this book, Adonis explores the relationship between the Sufi and Surrealist experiences, particularly concerning the perception of the world on its two levels (the manifest and the subtle, the unconscious), and the act of writing itself. He presents the concept of the ultimate point, where the unity of existence and the disappearance of contradictions reside, as well as the concepts of imagination, love, ecstatic utterances or involuntary writing, and aesthetics and its dimensions.

To illuminate the various epistemological and literary aspects of these two experiences, emphasizing both their particularity and their universality, Adonis appends four studies that complement this work. These studies address, respectively, the strangeness of vision and writing, vision and image, creativity and form, and Rimbaud—a mystic and a luminary.

Throughout this work, Adonis reinterprets Sufism and Surrealism in a new light and from a new perspective.