ABSTRACT
Founder and high priest of Surrealism, Breton drew from the poets of ‘la vraie vie absente’ and from the earliest French translations of Freud2 an existentially assumed poetics of desire, signalling a new starburst of human possibility.
Founder and high priest of Surrealism, Breton drew from the poets of ‘la vraie vie absente’ and from the earliest French translations of Freud2 an existentially assumed poetics of desire, signalling a new starburst of human possibility.