[lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 5 10:30:43 PDT 2009


At 03:41 AM 6/5/2009, Chris Doss wrote:


>Doesn't surprise me at all. Dali said that Breton etc. were never
>surrealists when it came to sexuality, but rather conventional petty bourgeois

I don't think this is just a matter of a conventional sign of the times. If you read the discussions at length, there's more than a whiff of anxiety in the air. Breton is so agitated by even talking about homosexuality he threatens to leave the room.



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