How to understand surreal/abstract literature?

Cum in a jar of olive oil and water and grow a brain.

>>9476526
read carefully

>>9476538
>>9476541
If you don't know just say you don't know, why do you have to pretend.

Let go of everything that you know about reality and everythinh that you hold dear.

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>>9476603
How does that help with understanding? I can already immerse myself in it, that's not the problem

>implying it needs to be "understood."

It ain't a fucking jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces snap into place.

>>9476576
Lol was the op not embarrassing enough?

>>9476526
Look at André Breton's prose, for example. You might notice that the grammar and syntax are always proper, nothing strange is happening there to challenge understanding. But the sentences are connecting words that would not have been brought together this way by conventional thought. That's what surrealism is about: unlikely meetings. So, in the case of surrealist literature, my advice would be to pay close attention to semantic play.

>>9476526

pretend to understand it

approach it like you would a dream

>>9476938
What does that even mean?

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>>9476526
Read "The Lost Ones" by Samuel Beckett. Pretty good entry to abstract lit. The prose is dense, but the "narrative" is still pretty accessible.