Another term which appears in commentaries on Resnais throughout his career is "surrealism", from his documentary portrait of a library in "Toute la mémoire du monde", through the dreamlike innovations of "Marienbad", to the latterday playfulness of "Les Herbes folles". Resnais himself traced a link to his teenage discovery of surrealism in the works of André Breton: "I hope that I always remain faithful to André Breton who refused to suppose that imaginary life was not a part of real life".