“Aprite le prigioni! Licenziate l’esercito!”
15 gennaio 1925
secondo numero di “La Révolution Surréaliste”.
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Cosa viene dopo la logica della ragione?
Ramses Younane
A livello culturale, la borghesia ha lavorato per sostituire la fede cieca con la ragione analitica razionale. Ma la glorificazione della ragione, il discernimento, e la perspicacia commerciale plasmano la vita in un sistema meccanico tecnologico che non permette il capriccio dell’immaginazione ed il piacere di uno spirito libero. Gli istinti naturali e i sentimenti profondi la cui natura è di ricercare il piacere vengono sfruttati e distorti dalla battaglia commerciale e dalla lotta competitiva o attraverso gli inni militari e le urla isteriche con cui i governi dittatoriali e coloniali sono soliti destare il proprio popolo.
MANIFESTO OF SURREALISMMANIFESTO OF SURREALISM
BY
ANDRÉ BRETON
(1924)
So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life – real life, I mean – that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trouble assessing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his nonchalance has brought his way, or that he has earned through his own efforts, almost always through his own efforts, for he has agreed to work, at least he has not refused to try his luck (or what he calls his luck!). At this point he feels extremely modest: he knows what women he has had, what silly affairs he has been involved in; he is unimpressed by his wealth or his poverty, in this respect he is still a newborn babe and, as for the approval of his conscience, I confess that he does very nicely without it. If he still retains a certain lucidity, all he can do is turn back toward his childhood which, however his guides and mentors may have botched it, still strikes him as somehow charming. There, the absence of any known restrictions allows him the perspective of several lives lived at once; this illusion becomes firmly rooted within him; now he is only interested in the fleeting, the extreme facility of everything. Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand, the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.
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El Manifiesto de los Exégetas
EL MANIFIESTO DE LOS EXÉGETAS de Benjamín Péret
Balance. Cuadernos de historia del movimiento obrero internacional y de la Guerra de España. Cuaderno número 28. Barcelona, julio 2003. Introducción y traducción de Agustín Guillamón.
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Balance. Cuadernos de historia del movimiento obrero internacional y de la Guerra de España. Cuaderno número 28. Barcelona, julio 2003. Introducción y traducción de Agustín Guillamón.
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A Cavalier History of Surrealism
Raoul Vaneigem
Author’s Note
Commissioned in 1970 by a French publisher who planned to issue a series intended for high-school pupils, this Histoire désinvolte du surréalisme was written in a couple of weeks under the pressure of a contractual deadline. The fact that the original bearer of the name chosen as a pseudonym, “Jules-François Dupuis”, was the janitor of the building where Lautréamont died, and a witness to his death certificate, should be a clear enough sign that this book is not one of those that are particularly dear to my heart; it was merely a diversion.
Manifesto of Surrealism
André Breton
Preface for a Reprint of the Manifesto (1929)
It was to be expected that this book would change, and to the extent that it questioned our terrestrial existence by charging it nonetheless with everything that it comprises on this or that side of the limits we are in the habit of assigning to it, that its fate would be closely bound up with my own, which is, for example, to have written and not to have written books.
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Né la vostra guerra, né la vostra pace!
Gruppo Surrealista (1938)
La guerra che si annuncia sotto la forma ipocrita delle misure di sicurezza ripetute e moltiplicate, la guerra che minaccia di sorgere dall’inestricabile conflitto degli interessi imperialistici che affligge l’Europa, non sarà la guerra per la democrazia, né la guerra per la giustizia, né la guerra per la libertà. Gli Stati che, per le esigenze dell’ora e per quelle della storia, pretendono di servirsi di queste nozioni come di una carta d’identità, hanno acquisito le loro ricchezze e consolidato il loro potere attraverso metodi fondati sulla tirannia, l’arbitrio e il sangue. Le prove più recenti dell’indegnità di questi Stati sono ancora vive nella memoria collettiva.
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Los jacobinos surrealistas*
Alain Jouffroy
Durante el intervalo que separa a esta guerra de la anterior, el concepto de libertad que había destellado con un brillo y un prestigio extraordinario en los días de la revolución Francesa, en la misma Francia estaba ahora en proceso de desconocerse y de perderse”.
André Breton, Arcane 17 , p.113.
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Comment accommoder le prêtre
Par Jean Caupenne (1929)
Chaque fois que dans la rue vous rencontrez un serviteur de la Putain à Barbe de Nazareth, vous devez l’insulter sur ce ton qui ne lui laisse aucun doute sur la qualité de votre dégoût. D’ailleurs, si votre bouche ne déborde pas d’insultes à la vue d’une soutane, vous êtes digne d’en porter une.
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