TITLE:
“Le Temps Suspendu”: Suspended Time, Surrealism and Shamanic Myth
AUTHORS:
Kurt Cline
KEYWORDS:
Surrealism, Film, Poetics
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Literary Study,
Vol.4 No.2,
April
25,
2016
ABSTRACT: A close examination of Rene Clair’s films Paris qui Dort and Entr’acte reveals a connection between
Clair’s cinematic technique of “instantanéisme” and Breton’s notion of “suspended time”.
The Surrealist Voice emerges from the liminal state between sleeping and waking as “spoken
thought”, the voice of being revealing itself to the poet. It is poesis speaking itself.