Today, we see the place of surrealism in the world as infinitesimal. Needless to say, any other outcome was impossible. This was our essential purpose, but one good look around is evidence enough of our failure. Their aim was not to establish a glorious place for themselves in the world of art and literature, but to change the world, to transform life itself. “….There’s no doubt that surrealism was a cultural and artistic success but these were precisely the areas of least interest to the surrealists. The real purpose of surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic, or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself. ” Scandal was a potent agent of revelation, capable of exposing such social crimes as the exploitation of one man by another, colonialist imperialism, religious tyranny- in sum, all the secret and odious underpinnings of a system that had to be destroyed. Their principle weapon wasn’t guns, of course it was scandal.
“All of us were supporters of a certain concept of revolution, and although the surrealists didn’t consider themselves terrorists, they were constantly fighting a society they despised. All you’ll have left is a dampness on your fingers.” You try to grab hold of it, but it will always slip away. “Your freedom is only a phantom that travels the world in a cloak of fog. Surrealism was an important part of his life.
He was born in Spain but he made most of his films in Mexico and France. I re-read it last year.īunuel’s a great filmaker. The translation is copyrighted 1983 (the year Bunuel died). These are a few sections from My Last Sigh (The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel).
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