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• The Cafe Irreal #13: Seven Prose Poems by Charles Simic

  I ran into the poet Mark Strand on the street. He immediately challenged me by drinking a glass of wine while standing on his head. I was astonished. He didn't even spill a drop. It was one of the bot...

• Cafe Irreal: Theory: Irrealism and the Dream-State

  IRREALISM AND THE DREAM-STATE It's common to describe many of the works we're including under the rubric of irrealism -- from Alice in Wonderland to The Trial -- as being dreamlike (that is, evokin...

• The Cafe Irreal Home Page

  The home page of The Cafe Irreal, a magazine of irreal fiction that's been online since 1998

• The Cafe Irreal | Irreal (Re)views 22

  The answer to the question What is irrealism? can probably be answered, if not fully, then at least most concisely, by a consideration of the physical laws that underlie the objects and events depicte...

• The Elevator and Chapters by Michal Ajvaz

  The Elevator and Chapters by Michal Ajvaz

• Cafe Irreal Issue 39: Impossibly Blue by Zdravka Evtimova

  Sometimes the sea was quiet and the sun was in the sky all the time, or so I thought. I was tempted to run to the shore and get a swim, but I suspected a storm would break the minute I'd touch the wat...