The First Manifesto of Surrealism
by Yvan Goll (author), Martin Firrell (contributor, translator), Cambridge Queer Press, 2024. English and French, 42 pages, 127 x 178mm,
ISBN 978-1912622504.
On 15th October 1924, André Breton published his now-famous
Manifeste du surréalisme.
Less widely known is Yvan Goll’s manifesto of surrealism, the movement’s very first document, published 14 days earlier on 1st October 1924.
This volume explores the distinctive character of Yvan Goll’s surrealism, less fanciful than Breton’s, rooted in the fundamental nature of reality, rather than in the world of dreams and chance.