First trade paperback edition
Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, pencil marking on front endpaper, else fine. Softcover.
Publishing Info: University Of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1984
ISBN: 9780802065285
Translated by Mark Czarnecki.
In 1948 the Quebec artist Paul-Emile Borduas published his famous manifesto Refus global--a plea on behalf of the powers of imagination and sensibility in society and a revolt against rationalization, mechanization, and other restraining influences, including the church. Borduas and his co-signers were bitterly attacked. But the message of Refus global had far-reaching and revolutionary effects on the culture of Quebec and ultimately on its politics.
Andre Bourassa, in this important work, underlines the role played by artists and poets during the 1940s and the relationships among various groups. But his emphasis is on the literature of Quebec, from the first novel in 1837 (also the year of Quebec's first revolution), through the Quiet Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, to the present. In manifestos, poems, articles, and theatre pieces he examines the nature of Quebec surrealism and its international context.
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List of interviews with major surrealists
