The automatic muse
Subtitle: surrealist novels
By: by Robert Desnos ... [et al.] ; translated by Terry Hale & Iain White ; introduced by Terry Hale
Contributors: Desnos, Robert, 1900-1945.; Leiris, Michel, 1901-    .; Limbour, Georges, 1902-1970.; Péret, Benjamin, 1899-1959.
Publisher: Atlas; Atlas Pr
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: French fiction -- 20th century
Other titles: Anti-Classics of Surrealism
Description: The Automatic Muse collects together four remarkable novels from the early days of Surrealism - the 1920's, when the group was experimenting with "automatic writing" and other methods of "forcing inspiration.".

Despite, or because of, the methods used in their composition these works are remarkable for the differences between them. They are variously mysterious, comic, astonishing, wildly extravagant. Yet they all share a feeling for the marvellous, and a literary style totally unrestrained by the conventions of "literature." Their potent vitality is an ample demonstration of the Surrealist programme and its belief in "the total liberation of man."
Table of contents: title: Mourning for mourning / Robert Desnos; title: The cardinal point / Michel Leiris; title: The polar child / Georges Limbour; title: The elegant ewe / Benjamin Péret