Cards on the Table
Mary Ann Caws: Robert Desnos and Surrealism for the masses, 3 June 2004
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life
by Katharine Conley.
Nebraska, 270 pp., £37.95, March 2004,0 8032 1523 1 Show More
by Katharine Conley.
Nebraska, 270 pp., £37.95, March 2004,
“... automatic sleep speaking (and always outperformed anyone and everyone at it) has wanted to make Conley’s claim, or indeed anything like it. So, were there nothing else to recommend it – which is very far from being the case – her book would still be worth noting and commenting on. Here’s the claim: that Surrealism as conceived of and practised by ... ”
