Paradoxism’S Manifestos And International Folklore,
2010
University of New Mexico
Paradoxism’S Manifestos And International Folklore, Florentin Smarandache
Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications
The book is structured in two parts as follows:
- in the first part, the theory of paradoxism through its first six published worldwide
manifestos (1983-2010);
- in the second part, the paradoxism collected from the international (English, French,
Spanish/Arabic, and Romanian) folklore in images and paradoxist situations.
PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on
excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, anti-clichés, deviations of senses,
against-the-grain speech, nonsense, paraphrases, oxymorons, inversions, digressions, paradoxes,
semiparadoxes, etc. in creations.
It was set up and led by the writer Florentin Smarandache since 1980's, who said: "The …
