André Breton - Georges Bataille polemic
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| [[André Breton]] was obviously the driving force behind [[surrealism]], and he ran the movement in a dictatorial style, even expelling several of its members in the [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]] in 1929. Several of these ex-members started adhering to [[Georges Bataille]]'s journal ''[[Documents (journal)|Documents]]''. | [[André Breton]] was obviously the driving force behind [[surrealism]], and he ran the movement in a dictatorial style, even expelling several of its members in the [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]] in 1929. Several of these ex-members started adhering to [[Georges Bataille]]'s journal ''[[Documents (journal)|Documents]]''. | ||
| - | Most sources state that Breton called Bataille an "excrement-philosopher" (philosophe-excrément) in the [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]], but in reality these words are nowhere to be found in that text. In the words of Breton, Bataille is presented as a "sick person" who suffers from a « déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice », a sufferer of « [[psychasthenia]] » who moves with delight in a "world unclean, senile, rancid, sordid, lewd and senile" ([[souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux]]). | + | Most sources state that Breton called Bataille an "excrement-philosopher" (philosophe-excrément) in the [[Second Surrealist Manifesto]], but in reality these words are nowhere to be found in that text. In the words of Breton, Bataille is presented as a "sick person" who suffers from a « déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice », a sufferer of « [[psychasthenia]] » who moves with delight in a "befouled, senile, rancid, sordid, lewd, doddering" (tr. ''[[Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography]]'', "[[souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux]]"). |
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| *[[(professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted]] | *[[(professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted]] | ||
| *[[Le lion châtré ]] | *[[Le lion châtré ]] | ||
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André Breton was obviously the driving force behind surrealism, and he ran the movement in a dictatorial style, even expelling several of its members in the Second Surrealist Manifesto in 1929. Several of these ex-members started adhering to Georges Bataille's journal Documents.
Most sources state that Breton called Bataille an "excrement-philosopher" (philosophe-excrément) in the Second Surrealist Manifesto, but in reality these words are nowhere to be found in that text. In the words of Breton, Bataille is presented as a "sick person" who suffers from a « déficit conscient à forme généralisatrice », a sufferer of « psychasthenia » who moves with delight in a "befouled, senile, rancid, sordid, lewd, doddering" (tr. Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography, "souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux").
See also
- (professing) to wish only to consider in the world that which is vilest, most discouraging, and most corrupted
- Le lion châtré
