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Transform the world' said Marx. Change life' said Rimbaud. The Surrealists insisted that these two slogans could be joined. To that end, they tried to wed their poetic revolt to the French Communist Party and the political forces for change. This book examines the early relationship between Surrealism and Communism, from the Dada period up to the moment when leaders of the Surrealist group joined the French Communist Party. It focuses on the liaison between the Surrealists and the Marxist intellectuals in the Clarte group.

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The Author: Born in 1939 in London, Alan Rose emigrated to the United States in 1963. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of the South (Sewanee) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He returned to Britain after graduation and received his doctorate in French Studies from Lancaster University. A Fulbright Teaching Fellow in France in 1984-1985, Rose returned there in 1989-1990 and was an associate faculty member at the Universite de Savoie. He has been teaching at the University of Idaho since 1969.

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