ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that experiences offer a particularly suitable screen through which to read a number of surrealist prose works, which share close proximity with Bataille's acceptation of sacred Surrealism and dialectical ambiguity. The dialectic had antecedents other than Heraclitus, Plato, or Fichte. It is linked even more essentially to currents of thought such as Gnosticism, Neoplatonic mysticism, and to philosophical phantoms such as Meister Eckhart, the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, and Jakob Boehme. In this tradition of occult analogical dialectics, an ambiguous tension exists between myth and reality, much as is evident in Bataille, Naum and Carpentier's surrealist expressions. Through the demortalising points of (non)contradiction, where mysticism-philosophy, death-life and myth-history meet to reveal the ambiguous invisible component of the analogical dialectic, these writers serve to extend Surrealism's focus upon the dialectical tension between reason and alternative knowledge. Naum's drama Ceasornicaria Taus and Carpentier's novel El Siglo de las Luces (1962) provide the textual illustrations of this proposal.
