![]() ![]() ![]() The influence that the Surrealist movement had on Carrington‟s work is undeniable and, in the case of THT, a prominent, most interesting feature of the novel. ![]() There is a tendency within scholarship and criticism of THT toward classifying Carrington‟s text as “Surrealist” 1 in most cases it is referred to as a novel that is subversive of Surrealist tenets, but one that remains nonetheless an instance of Surrealist literature. Natalya Lusty, Susan Suleiman, and Gloria Feman Orenstein have discussed in much detail the novel‟s strong feminist ethos, as well as its subversion of Surrealist tropes. In the last two decades Leonora Carrington‟s novel The Hearing Trumpet has received more attention within academic circles than it ever did at the time of its publication in 1974. ![]()
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