Contents
Introductory Note by Franklin Rosemont
Introduction: Andre Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism by Franklin Rosemont
Part One: The Nineteen-20s
For Dada
Max Ernst
After Dada
Marcel Duchamp
Francis Picabia
Introduction to the Discourse on the Paucity of Reality
Colloquy of the Suits of Armour
Succession of the Wonders
A Problem
The Strange Diversion
Leon Trotskyโs โLeninโ
Legitimate Defence
Exhibition X... Y... (excerpts)
The First Dali Exhibition
Part Two: The Nineteen-30s
The Immaculate Conception (excerpts)
Intra-Uterine Life
Introduction to the Possessions
Simulation of Mental Debility
Simulation of General Paralysis
Simulation of Delirium of Interpretation
Force of Habit
Nothing Is Incomprehensible
The Original Judgment
Surrealism and the Treatment of Mental Illness
The Relationship Between Intellectual Work and Capital
The Communicating Vessels (excerpts)
The Poverty of Poetry: The Aragon Affair and Public Opinion (excerpts)
Surrealism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (excerpts)
Conversations with S. A. Rhodes
On โProletarian Literatureโ
Experimental Researches (On the Irrational Embellishment of a City) (excerpts)
The Automatic Message
โM. Renault Is Very Concernedโ
What Is Surrealism?
โWritten Surrealist Composition or First and Last Draft'
Interview with 'Halo-Noviny'
Interview with 'Indice'
Preface to the Catalogue of the International Surrealist Exhibition {London 1936)
Limits Not Frontiers of Surrealism
Mad Love (excerpts)
Declaration on the Second Moscow Trial
Freud in Danger
Visit with Leon Trotsky
Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art
Anthology of Black Humour (excerpts)
Lightning Rod (excerpts)
Jonathan Swift
Charles Fourier
Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont
Benjamin Peret
Part Three: The Nineteen-40s
Interview with 'View' Magazine
Originality and Freedom
Prolegomena to a Third Manifesto of Surrealism or Else
Little Prophetic Interlude
The Return of 'Pere Duchesne'
The Great Invisibles
Genesis and Perspective of Surrealism in the Plastic Arts
A Great Black Poet: Aime Cesaire
Situation of Surrealism Between the Two Wars
Arcane 17 (excerpts)
Testimony 45: On Marcel Duchamp
Interview with Rene Belance (excerpts)
Speech to Young Haitian Poets
Foreword to โYves Tanguyโ
Interview with Jean Duche (excerpts)
Silence is Golden
Second Ark
On the Survival of Certain Myths and on Some Other Myths in Growth or Formation
Before the Curtain
Rising Sign
Part Four: The Nineteen-50s
Introduction to the Work of Toyen
Speech to the Meeting โFor the Defence of Freedomโ (excerpts)
On Magic Art (excerpts)
Flora Tristan
The October Revolution
Art Poetique
Part Five: The Nineteen-60s
Far from Orly
Homage to Natalia Sedova-Trotsky
First Hand
Surrealism Continues
Cavalier Perspective
Surrealist Documents
1920s
Open the Prisons! Disband the Army!
Declaration of 27 January 1925
Revolution Now and Forever! (excerpts)
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Hysteria by Louis Aragon and Andre Breton
1930s
Telegram to Moscow
Fire!
Murderous Humanitarianism
Manifesto on โLโAge dโorโ (excerpts)
Mobilisation Against War is not Peace! (excerpts)
โThe Planet Without a Visaโ
International Surrealist Bulletin (excerpts)
Neither Your War Nor Your Peace!
1940s
Declaration VVV
Freedom is a Vietnamese Word
Inaugural Break (excerpts)
1950s
At Last! by Andre Breton and Benjamin Beret
Hungary: Sunrise
Letter to Don C. Talayesva, Hopi Sun Chief
1960
Declaration Concerning the Right of Insubordination in the Algerian War
We Donโt EAR It That Way
The Iniquitous Way
Against the Liquidators
Letter to the Surrealists of the United States