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Surrealist liberty will always consist in this same facility: the surrealist object, deflected from its utilitarian sense, the surrealist games, where responses at random are mated with precise questions, have no other aim than to sensitize the spirit to a similar appeal, to persuade it that it wrongly neglects its power of returning whenever it likes to the land where, in the admirable line of Baudelaire, everything would speak to him in "his sweet native tongue.
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It took me awhile to realize or wrap my head around the fact this book was written in thes, long ago amp yet still quite some time after Surrealism had peaked.
This could be argued reading this book made me realize how completely surrealism has since pervaded pop culture amp has an influence reaching every modern Western at least person, whether or not they've ever heard the term.
Breton was still kicking amp carried the torch of Surrealism with him til the last, but I suppose that's neither here nor there in the context of the book.


To be honest amp it's embarrassing to admit I didn't understand what Surrealism was before I read this book, Not Surrealism the movement. To me, it was mostly something to be conflated with Dadaism amp a stab against logic amp reason, an often comical plaything of the mind a Buñuel film.
Indeed, the films I reference were amp are of the actual movement 'Surrealism', but still I had missed something crucial,

I'm now somewhat removed from the reading of the book, though certainly not its effects amp influence, so I'll just leave you with some of what's left over.


Upon beginning the book, I wondered if I

hadn't picked up something too aged or academic, as I found it dry, Though it is quite dense, amp drier than the works it discusses, it didn't take long for me to get into the groove of things amp jet through quite easily.
Alquié was if not a friend an acquaintance of Breton's, amp his insight into the subject struck me as pretty profound, I think that's actually how I got over the 'dryness' I began to trust him, The translation itself seems fine, amp I found Alquié a good writer, The French, man. Though at the start he specifies that this will be a study of the philosophy of surrealism as opposed to a history or something of the sort, I found it a great history of the movement also.
But it's definitely the philosophy that is explained, amp that is all the more reason to be enamoured with it:

, . . For the surrealists, we cannot recover the pristine and childlike consciousness, where the original rapport between spirit and thing is manifested, if we have not first undertaken to destroy the results of that rational and verbal solidification of our experience which in most men takes the place of reality.
Language, where reason is crystalized, is thus going to be put through a hard ordeal and all those will be applauded who, before surrealism, found in its phrases a paralogical sense.
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That's a quite general though wonderful thing to say, but he does go into great specific depths, The chapters are:
, The Surrealist Project
. Revolt and Revolution
. Expectation and the Interpretation of Signs
, Imagination

Well, for lack of too much to say, I'll just say that on a personal level, it helped awaken a great appreciation of things that need to be appreciated, amp on a nonpersonal level, I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about the philosophy of Surrealism.
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