A Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of SurrealismConceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter with Lautramonts Maldoror, Philippe Soupaults novella The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle preceded the authors involvement with Parisian Dada and the Surrealist movement he would later launch with his friends. Inspired by a schoolmates sudden departure for Greenland on a whim and his subsequent disappearance, Soupault imagines his alter egos adventures as entries in a journal both personal and fictional. Adopted by an Inuit tribe, Pirouelle drifts from one encounter to another, from one casual murder to another, until his life of liberty and spontaneity leads him to stasis at the edge of existence.After taking an active part in French Dada, Philippe Soupault (18971990) cofounded the Surrealist movement with Andr Breton and Louis Aragon, and authored with Breton The Magnetic Fields, the first official Surrealist work. After being expelled from the movement for the crime of being too literary, he devoted his life to writing, travel, journalism and political activity (for which he was put in prison by the collaborationist Vichy government).

Binding: Paperback;72 pages; Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Classification: FA; Weight: 216 g; Dimensions: 114 x 178 x 3

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