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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The Surrealists, following Apollinaire's lead, reclaimed the Marquis de Sade from the Enfer , and christened him in the First Surrealist Manifesto “surrealist in sadism,” thereby placing him within the movement's lineage. Paul Eluard in L'Evidence poétique , described Sade's legacy: “Sade wanted to restore to civilized man the power of his primitive instincts; he wanted to deliver the amorous imagination from its own objects. He believed that out of this, and this one, true equality would come" (cited in Breton 1997:21).
