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During a lengthy, hostile divorce from the surrealist circle in 1926, Antonin Artaud reiterated his eschewal of political engagement in the most vigorous terms. The surrealists attempt to graft their spiritual revolution onto Marxist materialism was for him a deleterious deviation from the ideological position that, with Artauds participation, those gathered around André Breton had developed the previous year. Demanding a reassertion of the surrealist commitment to total idealism [idéalisme intégral], Artaud reaffirmed his qualms before all real action: My scruples are absolute.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:30:52 +0000

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