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Anthologie des mythes, légendes et contes populaires d'Amérique

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"Je pense aux poupées des Indiens Hopi du Nouveau-Mexique, dont la tête parfois figure schématiquement un château médiéval. C'est dans ce château que je vais essayer de pénétrer. Il n'a pas de porte et ses murailles ont l'épaisseur de mille siècles. Il n'est pas en ruines comme on serait tenté de le croire. Depuis le romantisme, ses murs écroulés se sont redressés, reconstitués comme le rubis, mais aussi durs que cette gemme, ils ont, maintenant que je les heurte de la tête, toute sa limpidité. Voici qu'ils s'écartent comme les hautes herbes au passage d'un fauve prudent, voici que par un phénomène d'osmose, je suis à l'intérieur, dégageant des lueurs d'aurore boréale."

416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

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Benjamin Péret

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Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959) was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.
Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé, France on 4 July 1899. He, as a child, acquired little education due to his dislike of school and he instead attended the Local Art School from 1912. He too, however, resigned soon after in 1913 due to his sheer lack of study and willingness to do so. Afterwards he spent a short period of time in a School of Industrial Design before enlisting in the French army's Cuirassiers during the First World War to avoid being jailed for defacing a local statue with paint. He saw action in the Balkans before being deployed to Salonica, Greece.

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