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Surrealism: the Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia. walter benjamin

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Walter Benjamin Surrealism: the Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia Intellectual currents can generate a sufficient head of water for the critic to instal his power station on them. The necessary gradient, in the case of Surrealism, is produced by the difference in intellectual level between France and Germany. What sprang up in 1919 in France in a small circle of literati—we shall give the most important names at once: André Breton, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos, Paul Eluard—may have been a meagre stream,…

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