{"id":6055,"date":"2011-05-06T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:12:11","slug":"secrets-de-l%e2%80%99art-magique-surrealiste-secrets-of-the-magical-surrealist-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/secrets-de-l%e2%80%99art-magique-surrealiste-secrets-of-the-magical-surrealist-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets de l\u2019art magique surr\u00e9aliste (Secrets of the Magical Surrealist Art)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s post, “Surr\u00e9alisme<\/em> of Andr\u00e9 Breton: \u201cLa chute libre dans le subconscient<\/em>\u201d (\u201c<\/a><\/strong>The Free Fall into the Subconscious<\/a>\u201d)<\/a><\/strong>“, introduced a general idea of what “le<\/strong> surr\u00e9alisme<\/strong><\/em>” is, and described the Surrealist call to give carte blanche <\/em><\/strong>(or “free rein”)\u00a0to one’s subconscious, in the manner that was expressed by le chef de file <\/em><\/strong>(the leader) of this movement, the Frenchman\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Breton<\/strong>,\u00a0as well as many of his followers, such as the deliberately eccentric\u00a0Salvador Dal\u00ed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Salvador Dal\u00ed was un adepte de la premi\u00e8re <\/em>heure <\/em>(an early adept) of Surrealism. \u00a0According to his autobiographical “Secret Life”, his now iconic “Persistence of Memory” (picture above) was suggested to him by watching a Camembert <\/a><\/em>cheese slowly melting in the chaleur <\/em>(heat) of the\u00a0Summer<\/p>\n

Later, Dal\u00ed was formally “excommunicated” by Breton and the Surrealists, who accused him, among other charges, of excessive greed, and gave me him the unflattering nickname (based on an anagram of his name) of “Avida Dollars”—To be phonetically interpreted in French as “Avid For Dollar$”!<\/p>\n

Another episode, less “colorful” this time, and still largely ignored, pertaining to the “Surrealist experience” of Dal\u00ed, is the one related to his alleged “exorcism<\/a>” in France, shortly after WWII<\/p>\n

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Today, you are invited to discover, dans le texte original <\/em><\/strong>(in the original text), together with the English translation offered by A.S. Klein<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0important\u00a0excerpts of one of the two versions of the “Manifeste du Surr\u00e9<\/strong>alisme<\/em>” <\/strong>(“Surrealist Manifesto”), which can offer a better idea of Surrealism as a movement, which first appeared in Switzerland, France, and then spread everywhere else.<\/p>\n

With that being said, the\u00a0critique<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>and avertissement<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>(warning) related to this subject, also included in yesterday’s post, should also be pris en consid\u00e9ration<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> (taken into consideration.)<\/p>\n

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* Secrets de l\u2019art magique surr\u00e9aliste<\/span><\/span><\/em> (Secrets of the Magical Surrealist Art)<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

* Composition surr\u00e9aliste \u00e9crite, ou premier et dernier jet <\/strong><\/em>(Written surrealist composition, or first and last draft)<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Faites-vous apporter de quoi \u00e9crire, apr\u00e8s vous \u00eatre \u00e9tabli en un lieu aussi favorable que possible \u00e0 la concentration de votre esprit sur lui-m\u00eame <\/strong><\/em>(Have writing materials brought, once you are settled in a place as favourable as possible for focusing the mind on itself.)<\/p>\n

– Placez-vous dans l\u2019\u00e9tat le plus passif, ou r\u00e9ceptif, que vous pourrez. Faites abstraction de votre g\u00e9nie, de vos talents et de ceux de tous les autres <\/strong><\/em>(Put yourself in the most passive, or receptive, state you can.Forget about your genius, your talents, and those of others.)<\/p>\n

–\u00a0D<\/strong>ites-vous bien que la litt\u00e9rature est un des plus tristes chemins qui m\u00e8nent \u00e0 tout. \u00c9crivez vite sans sujet pr\u00e9con\u00e7u, assez vite pour ne pas retenir et ne pas \u00eatre tent\u00e9 de vous relire <\/strong><\/em>(Tell yourself repeatedly that literature is one of the saddest roads leading to everything. Write swiftly with no preconceived subject, swiftly enough that you cannot retain it, and are not tempted to re-read.)<\/p>\n

–\u00a0La premi\u00e8re phrase viendra toute seule, tant il est vrai qu\u2019\u00e0 chaque seconde il est une phrase, \u00e9trang\u00e8re \u00e0 notre pens\u00e9e consciente, qui ne demande qu\u2019\u00e0 s\u2019ext\u00e9rioriser <\/strong><\/em>(The first sentence will arise spontaneously, it being the case in truth that each second there is a sentence, unknown to our conscious thought, which only asks to be externalised.)<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Il est assez difficile de se prononcer sur le cas de la phrase suivante\u00a0; elle participe sans doute \u00e0 la fois de notre activit\u00e9 consciente et de l\u2019autre, si l\u2019on admet que le fait d\u2019avoir \u00e9crit la premi\u00e8re entra\u00eene un minimum de perception <\/em><\/strong>(It is quite difficult to make pronouncements about the next sentence; it no doubt participates in both our conscious activity and the other kind, if you agree that the fact of having written the first entails a minimum of perception.)<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Peu doit vous importer, d\u2019ailleurs; c\u2019est en cela que r\u00e9side, pour la plus grande part, l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat du jeu surr\u00e9aliste<\/strong><\/em>(That should matter little to you, however; and in that resides, to a large extent, the interest of the surrealist game.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0–\u00a0Toujours est-il que la ponctuation s\u2019oppose sans doute \u00e0 la continuit\u00e9 absolue de la coul\u00e9e qui nous occupe, bien qu\u2019elle paraisse aussi n\u00e9cessaire que la distribution des n\u0153uds sur une corde vibrante. Continuez autant qu\u2019il vous plaira <\/em><\/strong>(It is still the case that punctuation definitely runs counter to the absolute continuity of flow which concerns us, although it may seem as necessary as the distribution of nodes on a vibrating string.\u00a0Continue for as long as you wish.<\/p>\n

\u00a0– Si le silence menace de s\u2019\u00e9tablir pour peu que vous ayez commis une faute\u00a0: une faute, peut-on dire, d\u2019inattention, rompez sans h\u00e9siter avec une ligne trop claire <\/strong><\/em>(If silence threatens to establish itself, if you have committed an error: an error, let us say, of inattention, break off without hesitation with a more than obvious blank line.)<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00c0 la suite du mot dont l\u2019origine vous semble suspecte, posez une lettre quelconque, la lettre\u00a0l par exemple, toujours la lettrel, et ramenez l\u2019arbitraire en imposant cette lettre pour initiale au mot qui suivra <\/strong><\/em>(Following a word whose origin seems suspect to you, place some letter, the letter \u2018l\u2019 for example, the letter \u2018l\u2019 every time, and recall the arbitrary by making this letter the initial one of the very next word.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Yesterday’s post, “Surr\u00e9alisme of Andr\u00e9 Breton: \u201cLa chute libre dans le subconscient\u201d (\u201cThe Free Fall into the Subconscious\u201d)“, introduced a general idea of what “le surr\u00e9alisme” is, and described the Surrealist call to give carte blanche (or “free rein”)\u00a0to one’s subconscious, in the manner that was expressed by le chef de file (the leader) of…<\/p>\n

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