David Gascoyne’s A Short Survey of Surrealism, 1935… Journal entry on 23rd April 1939: ‘The essential nature of the experience being Negation. The void, das Nichts, Nada, le Néant. Practically the only image that presents itself at all strongly to me is a black vacuum in (or through) which two eyes are fixedly staring’ and searching for the right tone to write poems about man’s present spiritual crisis.” - David Gascoyne, Collected Journals

David Gascoyne’s A Short Survey of Surrealism, 1935…

Journal entry on 23rd April 1939: ‘The essential nature of the experience being Negation. The void, das Nichts, Nada, le Néant. Practically the only image that presents itself at all strongly to me is a black vacuum in (or through) which two eyes are fixedly staring’ and searching for the right tone to write poems about man’s present spiritual crisis.” - David Gascoyne, Collected Journals

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