![]() ![]() Going forward there was acknowledged precedent for the validity of jointly recording words onto the page as they come, whether borrowed, imagined or otherwise summoned forth from whatever depths. ![]() Theirs remains the key 20th century collaboration. The Magnetic Fields opened the verbal floodgates for the writers aligned first with Dada and then with Surrealism: Breton, Soupault, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Benjamin Peret.īreton and Soupault ushered a freshly new phenomenon of writing into being. In the spring of 1919, two young men, Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault, one a student of law and the other of medicine, both in a state of moral shock. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surralisme) of 1924, in which he defined. This double gaze has made it possible, as nothing else would, for Philippe Soupault and André Breton to push forward on the path where no one had preceded them, into these shadows where they were both speaking aloud.įantastic, disconnected but vivid and poetic as though Breton and Soupault were seeing sea life at the bottom of the ocean’s floor: very few of us have the intensity of spirit to live with that sense of life. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. ![]() With distance, a sort of unity has established itself, and The Magnetic Fields have become the work of a single author with two heads. ![]()
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