Yad Mordechai has become one of the surrealistic places that always emerge in war zones.

BBC: Analysis: Dangerous gamble

Instead of religious iconology, Cartier-Bresson finds playful expression in the Surrealistic image of a pair of high-heeled shoes shaped like a heart.

WSJ: Review: Two Sides of the Same Coin | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson/Paul Strand, Mexico 1932-1934' at Fondation Cartier in Paris

More recently, KAWS has earned acclaim as a contemporary painter, producing large-scale canvases that nod to the surrealistic style of the Chicago Imagists.

WSJ: Up in the Air | Making It

It's the guiding concept that drives 32-year-old Goldman, a conceptual photographer in Tel Aviv, Israel, who has been recreating his dream fragments in a six-year series called The "Surrealistic Pillow" Project.

CNN: Surrealist photographer recreates his dreams in real life

And they were just, you know, they met up and started talking and the idea that the Cirque du Soleil could do some sort of surrealistic impressionistic visual take on The Beatles' music started.

NPR: Cirque du Soleil Interprets the Fab Four

Such a surrealistic notion could have easily swept the novella into further regions of fantasy, to weird situations or slapstick humor.

WSJ: A.B. Yehoshua, Author of Mr. Mani, on the Limits of Imagination | Word Craft