Surrealism: Permanent revelation

by Roger Cardinal, Robert Stuart Short

Surrealism is a collective adventure which began in Paris shortly after the first world war, in the form of an association of individuals groups around Andre Breton. It has become international in scope, and has made incursions into all the arts. This small, 168-page book is only 5" x 7" but packs a lot of info into this small space.

167 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[Scott Lennes]

I didn’t want to write a review for this book, because nobody else has written a review for it yet, and I don’t want my scattered thoughts to influence the preconceptions of potential readers, but I feel compelled to share why I didn’t want to write a review for it, since I typically do write reviews, and the most natural place to share my reasoning for not wanting to write a review is in the very review I didn’t want to write.

These reviews are never about the book. They’re never about me, either. They’re about a third entity generated by my interaction with the book. And this review is a fourth entity generated by interaction of the first, second, and third. Genuinely, unironically, I think that’s cool.

Some may say I’m writing in circles to no meaningful end, and to that I say yeah, so, whatever. I may ask, what gives an end meaning?

I will say, Surrealism is short and sweet, and (if you’re fortunate enough to read the edition I read) the pages feel cool. OK that’s all.