Painting offers us a vision, literature invites us to seek one and therefore traces an imaginary path toward it. Painting constructs presences, literature emits meanings and then attempts to catch up with them.

Artistic and literary movements and trends of renewing character that emerged in the early twentieth century.

This note aims at establishing a relation between the surreal numbers introduced by J.H. Conway and Leibniz’s theory of the origin of positive integers. Such a connection illuminates some aspects of the philosopher’s ...