The story that will be read in this dossier begins with the meeting at Val-de-Grâce, around a dissection table, of two medical students, poets in their spare time. Surrealism would not have taken the orientation that we know it, particularly in its relations with science, if two of its main animators, Aragon and Breton, had not themselves practiced medicine in wartime and, because they had a poet's complexion, had not emerged from it with intense frustrations...

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The feeling of nature among the surrealists – Persée (persee.fr)

Émilie Frémond, Le surréalisme au grand air, Classiques Garnier, vol. I and II, 2023.

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Laurent Carrive: "Life and norm in the surrealist movement. Psychoanalysis, science and poetry", Topique, 2012/2 (n° 119), pages 175 to 186