The head of the French studies department at the Federal University of Porto Alegre had welcomed a number of surrealists from the ultimate generation. Then he had contacted me for the Mélusine journal. Finally, he programmed an issue of studies on the same subject in the journal Organon, which had the particularity of publishing texts directly in French. I therefore proposed to him this contribution on the young Pierre Unik and his way of entering the group. The chance of encounters had made me obtain contemporary documents, unpublished, preserved by one of his classmates.

Revista Organon (No.22, vol.8), Aspectos do surrealismo Robert Ponge, Organizador. Revista do instituto de letras da universidade federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-brazil, 1994

BÉHAR, H. JOINING SURREALISM. Organon, Porto Alegre, v. 8, n. 22, 2013. DOI: 10.22456/2238-8915.39853. Journal available at the following address: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/organon/article/view/39853. Access: May 7, 2024.

my article: https://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/175218/000122013.pdf
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Same text published in volume: "Joining Surrealism," in: The Coming Sense, Homage to Léon Somville, Peter Lang, 1995, pp. 83-92. My own text also appears in the volume Entering Surrealism, ed. Phénix, coll. Les Pas perdus, 2004.

Table of Contents:

Emmanuel RUBIO: Introduction 7 Catherine DUFOUR: Tristan Tzara and entering surrealism: comings and goings, entries and exits 19 Simone GRAHMANN: Max Ernst, the "inconstant, rebellious member" 35 Henri BÉHAR: Pierre Unik: joining surrealism 51 Clary DEMANGEON: Georges Sadoul's entry into surrealism 65 Paule PLOUVIER: Ferdinand Alquié's notebooks 81 Daniel BRIOLET: A long crossing: Jehan Mayoux 95 Guillaume BRIDET: Roger Caillois: a surrealist normalien? 109 José VOVELLE: Some professions of faith in the thirties 123 Myriam FELISAZ-DEBODARD: A non-entry, the case of Paul Klee 141 Georgiana M. M. COLVILE: The ghost women of surrealism 155 Annie RICHARD: Entering surrealism put to the test of photography 173 Alain MASCAROU: The half-open door by Christian Dotremont 187 Marc KOBER: Claude Tarnaud: a knight endowed with ubiquity 201 Alexandre CASTANT and Iwona TOKARSKA: André Pieyre de Mandiargues and surrealism... 215 Virginie POUZET: Unica Zürn: a surrealism of childhood and madness 231 Stéphanie CARON: Joyce Mansour, André Breton and the surrealist movement: history of a recognition 247

Read R. Ponge's article in the Revue de littérature comparée:

Extensions: The surreal without surrealism: Organon, UFRGS, 2013 (loading a bit slow).

The same journal announces an issue for the centenary of surrealism:

• ISSUE 77 - SURREALISM TURNS 100 YEARS OLD