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world through their eyes and describing their pain and happiness. Of the surrealistic nature in his writing, he said that in his childhood he used to listen to fairy-tales in which surrealistic elements were an integral part and that gave his writing a similar texture. He believes that "the surreal is the flip side of reality - it is what gives meaning to our everydayness".
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