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"Powers of No is a significant and valuable contribution to scholarship on European surrealism, Romanian literary history, and avant-garde studies with a compelling narrative arc. Catherine L. Hansen recovers an overlooked chapter in surrealist history, advancing our understanding of how surrealist ideas evolved in response to political pressures and historical traumas." —Cosana Eram, University of the Pacific​

"Powers of No charts the intense story of the Infra Noir surrealist group—its impassioned writings and wider contexts—in the language they need: the hairpin turns of dialectics, the fractious originality, the lost works, and the headlong rush into philosophy’s emergency exits. Its ‘knowing through mis-unknowing’ uncovers how surrealist thought and practice remain as necessary, and as unexpected, as ever." —Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Norwich University of the Arts