André Breton's and Eugène Atget's Valentines

Having criticized in the first surrealist manifesto (1924) the novel and “tout ce qui participe de l’anecdote” (Oeuvres I: 320), Breton affirms later on that the form does serve avant-garde interests: listed as one of the movement’s precursors, “[Raymond] Roussel est surréaliste dans l’anecdote” (Oe...

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