"THE AWKWARD AGE", MÉLUSINE N° 8, 1986, PP. 9-15 (WITH P. MOURIER).
Argument:
We continue, in the present collection, to use the two keys for surrealism that are the joint notions of golden age and age of man. However, the lock has moved in the meantime. The emphasis this time is no longer on the mythical and utopian dimension of surrealism, in its double regressive and projective dynamic, but on the ethical and political dimension.
The title "The Awkward Age" given to this introduction to the Mélusine volume following the collection subtitled "The Golden Age the Age of Man" only appears in the table of contents. This shows how much the editors of this issue hesitated to qualify one of the constitutive periods of the movement as of each of its members! Let us specify that the novel of the same title by José Cabanis (Gallimard, 1990) had not yet been announced.
Commenting on our introduction, the surrealist José Pierre (1927-1999) then expressed all the reservations that we ourselves had towards this title, which however had the merit of identifying the critical points of the Surrealist Movement.