MÉLUSINE N°XXXVII ISSUE - THE GOLD OF TIME – ANDRÉ BRETON – FIFTY YEARS AFTER

par Henri Béhar

April 25, 2017

The Gold of Time – André Breton – Fifty Years After. Fifty years after what?
After the famous Cerisy decade, devoted to surrealism, under the direction of Ferdinand Alquié, followed at a distance by André Breton. After his death, while his presence manifests itself as current as can be.
Far from drawing up the chronicle of manifestations or the bibliography of works that have been devoted to him since 1966, far from any idea of commemoration or anniversary, and even if one cannot escape it momentarily, the contributions gathered here attempt to bring out the reasons and means of this persistent and even growing notoriety, both through the ideas he put in place, the form and aesthetics of his expression, the theoretical and practical displacements he proceeded to on the knowledge and art of his time.
Beyond this overall cartography, these new studies project his libertarian motto onto the past fifty years, relying on his own philosophical conceptions, taking example from a behavior that sought each day to reconcile love, poetry, freedom in the same breath.

Collaborations by: Henri BÉHAR and Françoise PY, Georges SEBBAG, Hans T. SIEPE, Jean-Michel DEVÉSA, Stamos METZIDAKIS, Violaine WHITE, Patrice ALLAIN, Daniel BOUGNOUX, Thomas GUILLEMIN, Alessandra MARANGONI, Alexandre CASTANT, Bruno DUVAL, Misao HARADA, Jean ARROUYE, Pierre TAMINIAUX, Stéphane MASSONET, Sophie BASTIEN, Elza ADAMOWICZ, Sébastien ARFOUILLOUX, Jean-François RABAIN, Jean-Claude MARCEAU, Gabriel SAAD, Masao SUSUKI, Cédric PÉROLINI, Noémie SUISSE, Alain CHEVRIER, Constance KREBS, Wolfgang ASHOLT.

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