The personality and exact role of Roger Caillois (1913-1978) in French philosophy and sociology needed to be clarified fifteen years after his disappearance. Professor at the University of Geneva, Laurent Jenny took the initiative to organize a colloquium at the Sorbonne to deal with it. The proceedings were published a year later by a school publisher. For my part, I had to evoke Caillois's presence within the surrealist movement. Not only in his relations with André Breton but also with the others, since he was one of the initiators of the journal Inquisitions.

Roger Caillois: adventurous thought by: Henri Béhar, Henry Bouillier, Roland Caillois...[et al.]; under the dir. of Laurent Jenny, Paris, Belin, 1992, 302 p.

Summary It is with the project of constituting an imaginary science that Roger Caillois crossed the great movements of his time: surrealism, comparative mythology, sociology of the sacred... This collection analyzes this original attempt at subversion of the human sciences. At the end of the work, notices and complete bibliography of Caillois.

Download the article PDF Roger Caillois, 'mental compass' of surrealism Text taken up in the volume: Henri Béhar, The Lost Children, Essay on the avant-garde, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, 2002, pp. 149-162.

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