ALSAdvances in Literary Study2327-4034Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/als.2016.42004ALS-65812ArticlesSocial Sciences&Humanities “Le Temps Suspendu”: Suspended Time, Surrealism and Shamanic Myth urtCline1*National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, China* E-mail:kcline@ntut.edu.tw250420160402232515 March 2016accepted 22 April 25 April 2016© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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.

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Kurt Cline, (2016) “Le Temps Suspendu”: Suspended Time, Surrealism and Shamanic Myth. Advances in Literary Study,04,23-25. doi: 10.4236/als.2016.42004

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