Benjamin Péret, by Jean-Michel Goutier
To misunderstand Benjamin Péret, his life, his work, is to understand nothing of surrealism. A revolutionary, he passionately fought against any repressive system tending to enslave the individual and particularly against religion and Stalinism. His high idea of poetry made him denounce very early the sordid compromises of committed art and his salutary pamphlet, The dishonor of poets, remains a flint in the shoe of those who praise regimentation.
A plural approach, this work brought, at its publication, new information, unpublished texts and documents on the poet and revolutionary whose behavior as a free man bursts forth in this formula by André Breton:
"What is surrealism?
It is the beauty of Benjamin Péret listening to the words family, religion and homeland being pronounced."
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