André Breton - Georges Bataille polemic  

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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 » qui se meut avec délectation dans un univers « souillé, sénile, rance, sordide, égrillard, gâteux ».