André Breton - Entrevistas

In the aftermath of his return from the USA, where he had taken refuge until 1946 during the Nazi invasion of his country, he gave RTF journalist André Parinaud the sixteen radio interviews collected here, along with others given to the world press between 1941 and 1952.

In them, an inventor talks about his invention - surrealism as one of the most fascinating adventures in the march of time, which has influenced literature, the arts and our vision of the world - reviving its history, weighing up its many ruptures and aspirations, vicissitudes and key figures, including Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon. At the start of the Cold War, when compromised art and the anxieties of the time were suffocating European intellectual life and claiming a monopoly on social revolution, without allowing emancipatory forms of creation to surface, André Breton defended the topicality, relevance and vitality of Surrealism, against those who cyclically announced its death and hostilised it. A historical and human document, Entrevistas also contains the psychology of a non-conformist who was not without contradictions.