Literary Origins of Surrealism. a New Mysticism in French Poetry ISBN: 9780231885706 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Describes the relation of surrealism to the social and psychological revolt of the first post war period as revealed by its deep antipathy for bourgeois society in order to show that surrealist writings have contributed no so much to each other as to one general revolution in poetic mysticism and lead to the development of a new philosophy of reality.