Avec les avant-gardes éphémères, le détour par le social subjectivé : Michel Leiris

Literature, art and politics have been closely intertwined in scrutinizing society over the past century. However one of the main aspects that can be stressed is the difficulty of the various movements to last over time. Dadaists, Surrealists, Communists, Existentialists, Situationnists and their offspring could not or would not escape a recurrent ephemerality that was, if not necessary, never the less objectively inherent to their identity. Michel Leiris, the author and participant of several of these movements, is a good example of this fact: their short-lived nature yet their social relevance.