"First published 2015 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd" -- Title page verso "All translations, except where otherwise stated, are by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson" -- Title page verso Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The annihilation of self-identity Introduction Being and its reflections / Jacques Hérold The haunting / André Breton Preface in praise of popular prejudices / Pierre Mabille The noble mannequin seeks and finds her skin / René Crevel The light, the shadow and the prey / Paul Nougé Mirrors / Pierre Mabille The "caput mortuum" or the alchemist's wife / Michae Leiris Non-scientific treatise on the fourth dimension / Marcel Marien What is a woman? / Leonora Carrington Leave everything / Annie Le Brun Memory of the last / Vincent Bounoure You always cherish your failures, machine-man / Bernard Caburet The challenge of otherness Introduction Pamphlet against Jerusalem / Robert Desnos The universal bases of culture / Antonin Artaud Don't clutter up the colonies (fragments); Approaching the enchanted castle / Jacques Viot The patriotism of the unconscious / René Crevel Ruins: ruine de ruines / Benjamin Péret The nocturnal island / The Bucharest Surrealist Group The friendship of man and beast / Georges Bataille Cat=clover / Jacqueline Sénard-Duprey Embers in Ceridwen's cauldron / André Breton Light of life / Benjamin Péret The twilight of the wheeler-dealers / Robert Benayoun The passage from poetry to philosophy / René Ménil A creolism sewn with white thread / Annie Le Brun The exit from Egypt / René Alleau The moral imperative Introduction It's up to you / Louis Aragon Note on freedom / Louis Aragon Humour as a moral attitude / Marko Ristić Love of revolution in our time / Nicolas Calas Liberty versus liberation / André Breton Reflections on the executioner and the victim / Georges Bataille Is surrealism a philosophy? / Gérard Legrand Freedom as nostalgia and as project / Georges Henein The hidden being / Elisabeth Lenk Festival mood / Philippe Audoin Paradise / PIerre Mabille The tasks of art and poetry Introduction Notes on poetry / André Breton and Paul Éluard The social anarchy of art / Antonin Artaud The rotting donkey / Salvador Dalí Specification of poetry / Roger Caillois Essay on the situation of poetry / Tristan Tzara Inviolable images / Paul Nougé Systematisation and determination / Roger Caillois The subversive function of poetry / Georges Henein On surrealist semiology / Karel Teige The sense of the world / René Magritte Automatic perspective / Adrien Dax Notes on poetry / Paul Nougé Surrealism and the savage heart / Vincent Bounoure Magic art and revolution / Vincent Bounoure and Vratislav Effenberger On the utilitarian conception of language / Vratislav Effenberger
