Fenêtres de chair et prisons anatomiques : l'envers du rêve surréaliste

ABSTRACT

If boundaries never completely disappear from the representations of the dream, even when it comes to moving or erasing them, the body remains for the imagination a threshold that surrealist poets do not all interpret in the same way: aside from the windows of the heart carved into the flesh, or those opening onto an unconscious transformed into a marvelous landscape (Magnetic Fields), we must point out all these poor dreamers (Artaud) whose unconscious remains a confining room, a true “anatomical prison” (Tzara) from which the dream has no escape route. By focusing on the work of Michel Leiris and Tristan Tzara, my aim is to examine what these heterodox dreamers locked up in the dark theater of organic matter have to tell about the surrealist utopia and its anthropology.

KEYWORDS:

• Surrealism
• dream
• Tzara
• materialism
• anthropology
• body

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Emilie Frémond

Émilie Frémond is Associate Professor in twentieth-century French Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She has dedicated her research to Surrealism and French poetry and the relation between Science and Poetry. She has published Le Surréalisme au grand air I. Écrire la nature (Classiques Garnier, 2016).