Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Clouston, Victoria

Titel

Breton’s situation at “the eye of a storm” 1

Ist Teil von

• André Breton in Exile, 2018, Vol.1, p.187-214

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The France to which Breton returned in 1946 was necessarily a very different country from the one he had left in 1941, exemplified particularly by its capital, Paris. The Parti Communiste Francais (PCF) had gained in popularity and influence in the wake of its role in the Resistance, and capitalised on its popular title of "the party of those shot", marking its heroic losses during the years of occupation. This chapter examines the position Breton took on his return to France in May 1946, the poetic direction in which he decided to lead the movement, and the opposition he encountered. During the year after his return, Breton had been provoked by a series of letters and articles to clarify the position of Surrealism in postwar France. The French Surrealists, with Breton at their head, responded in June with their tract entitled Rupture inaugurale, a manifesto for the newly formed group Cause.