Surrealism in the Works of Zakaria Tamer (The Neighing of the White Steed, Spring in The Ashes, and The Thunder

Surrealism is a literary school that emerged in France in the early 20th century and its aim was to reach “Sublime”. Dreams, autographs, frenzy, humor, eroticism, magic, surrealistic objects, and the objective accident are surrealistic devices. Zakaria Tamer, a contemporary Syrian writer, is an Arab writer whose works illustrate his influence on such an attitude in the selection of subjects and fictional spaces. This article examines the course of the evolution of the early decades of writing by examining the three first sets of Tamer's short stories based on the principles of the school of surrealism. The findings of this study show that Zakaria Tamer in his first collection, The Neighing of the White Steed, has a greater commitment to French surrealism and most of his stories are narrated in a dream-like way. In his second collection, Spring in The Ashes, and third collection, The Thunder, localizes this attitude I such a way that the level of surrealistic components decreases yet surrealist spaces still dominate the stories. A remarkable point in this process is Tamer's approach to some kind of social surrealism which has a clear contradiction with the individualistic aspect of this school. The present study employs a descriptive-analytical approach.