This is the introduction to the Europe journal issue that I had composed with the help of the best connoisseurs of the poet at that time. As is customary in publishing, it was published in italics. I had just returned from a lecture mission in Mexico, where I had followed the path that Leon Trotsky, André Breton and their companions had taken to reach Guadalajara, a university city neglected by my colleagues. And I had, in a way, relived the difficult exchanges between the two characters that I was reading attentively, referring to their debates in the center of a luxuriant nature, perfectly dominated by man. The question they were asking themselves remains just as insoluble, hence the denomination used in the title.

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Table of contents:

The Aporia of Patzcuaro by Henri Béhar

At open book... Or how not to tell one's life by Pascaline Mourier-Casile André Breton and classical culture by Norbert Bandier The manifestos Late impressions by Jean-Luc Steinmetz Paranoid delirium and poetry, Breton and Dali: the turning point of the thirties by Ruth Amossy The black fairy and the Caribbean fairy by Régis Antoine Celtic magic by Jean-Claude Blachère André Breton's "poetic morality" by Jeanne-Marie Baude André Breton Women and love by Henri Pastoureau The mythology of history by Roger Navarri The invisible interlocutor by Alain Jouffroy

Supplements:

André Breton Dictionary, Letter N

Henri Béhar, André Breton the great undesirable, 3rd edition, Classiques Garnier, coll. Biographies, 2024 (in press).