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I don't think Cheever is "marginalized" (if he is) because he is a surrealist -- I'd say that the reason he does not presently occupy a more prominent place in the pantheon of American writers because he worked mostly in the short story.

—Lance Mannion

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an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism

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It was a group for people whose unrequited love had ended in some kind of surrealist moment. — F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 01 - July 2001
“The artist is probably a surrealist or a vorticist or something.” He inspected the canvas and the paint-table in front of it. — Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
For the surrealist there is terror too, but also, always and most importantly, a strange and alluring beauty. — F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 06 - December 1999
The man could have had his reasons, perhaps surrealist or dadist ones, but reasons all the same. — FTITLESF,Apr2004
Although not a surrealist, Gray does ascribe to the idea of convulsive beauty: beauty, even grim beauty, in the service of liberty. — Ecstatic Days