Surrealism against the current : tracts and declarations / edited and translated by Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijałkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Michael.

Fijałkowski, Krzysztof.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Contents:

Introduction: Surrealism as a Collective Adventure 1

1. The Historical Orientation of Surrealism 21

Introduction to La Revolution surrealiste 22

Declaration of 27 January 1925 24

The Position of Surrealism 25

Letter to Andre Breton 29

Dialectics of the Dialectic 32

Inaugural Rupture 42

High Frequency 49

Note for Le Surrealisme, meme 51

Confronting the Liquidators 52

Let's Get to the Point 55

The Platform of Prague 58

The Possible Against the Current 66

When Surrealism Turned Fifty 76

Hermetic Bird 79

The Platform of Prague Twenty Years On 81

2. Surrealism vis-a-vis Revolutionary Politics 93

The Revolution First and Always! 95

Burn Them Down! 97

Mobilisation Against War is Not Peace 99

'Planet Without a Visa' 104

When the Surrealists Were Right 106

The Knife in the Wound 111

Counter-attack: Union of the Struggle of Revolutionary Intellectuals 114

Declaration: 'The Truth About the Moscow Trials' 117

For a Revolutionary Union 119

Neither Your War Nor Your Peace! 120

Binary Star: Letter to a Group of Militants 121

Hungary, Rising Sun 125

The Example of Cuba and the Revolution 126

Neither Today Nor In This Way 128

The Surrealists to the French Section of the Fourth International 130

Portrait of the Enemy 132

Down with France! 134

The Public Sphere and Curiosity 135

3. The Security of the Spirit 139

Letter to the Head Doctors of Insane Asylums 140

Address to the Dalai Lama 141

Address to the Pope 142

Open the Prisons/Disband the Army 142

The Fiftieth Anniversary of Hysteria 143

Read... Don't Read 145

The Aragon Affair 146

Poetry Transfigured 148

The Fireships of Fear 150

Back to Your Kennels, Yelpers of God 152

See... Don't See 155

Murderer! 156

Facing the Mob 157

The Heart's Hue and Cry 159

Warning Shot 159

Against Celine 163

Expose the Physicists, Empty the Laboratories! 164

It's Up to You 166

Run If You Must 167

The Stockholm Reminder 172

beautiful like Beautiful Like 173

4. Declarations on Colonialism 180

To the Soldiers and Sailors 181

The World in the Surrealist Era 182

Don't Visit the Colonial Exhibition 182

First Appraisal of the Colonial Exhibition 185

Legitimate Defence 188

Murderous Humanitarianism 190

Freedom is a Vietnamese Word 193

Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War 195

Jean Schuster, The Fourth Canto 198

Definitions of Surrealism 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209) and index.

ISBN:

0745317790

0745317782

OCLC:

47081223