A vital new interpretation of the personalities, historical forces and intellectual paradigms that created Surrealist art

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes

A collection of newly translated writings by the French sociologist and surrealist.