Voyage of Horace Pirouelle, the
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Author: Soupault, Philippe
Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter with Lautréamont’s Maldoror, Philippe Soupault’s novella preceded his involvement with Parisian Dada and the Surrealist movement. Inspired by a schoolmate’s sudden departure for Greenland and his subsequent disappearance, Soupault imagines his adventures as entries in a journal. Pirouelle drifts from one encounter to another until his life of spontaneity leads him to stasis.After taking an active part in French Dada, Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) cofounded the Surrealist movement with André Breton and Louis Aragon, and authored with Breton The Magnetic Fields, the first official Surrealist work. After being expelled from the movement for the crime of being 'too literary', he devoted his life to writing, travel, journalism and political activity (for which he was put in prison by the collaborationist Vichy government).
ISBN 9781939663832. Wakefield Press. pb. 72 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.
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Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter with Lautréamont’s Maldoror, Philippe Soupault’s novella preceded his involvement with Parisian Dada and the Surrealist movement. Inspired by a schoolmate’s sudden departure for Greenland and his subsequent disappearance, Soupault imagines his adventures as entries in a journal. Pirouelle drifts from one encounter to another until his life of spontaneity leads him to stasis.After taking an active part in French Dada, Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) cofounded the Surrealist movement with André Breton and Louis Aragon, and authored with Breton The Magnetic Fields, the first official Surrealist work. After being expelled from the movement for the crime of being 'too literary', he devoted his life to writing, travel, journalism and political activity (for which he was put in prison by the collaborationist Vichy government).
ISBN 9781939663832. Wakefield Press. pb. 72 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.
available