In the autumn of 1924, just before Andre Breton published the "Manifeste du surrealisme, " two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology. Within a few months they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among t...
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