In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins,
the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of
psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side
of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and
sensationalistic journalism. The provocative nature of this
insolent mass culture resonated with the intellectual and political
preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates in
this fascinating study. "Pulp Surrealism " weaves an interpretative
history of the intersection between mass print culture and
surrealism, re-evaluating both our understanding of mass culture in
early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the
surrealist movement.
"Pulp Surrealism" presents four case studies, each exploring the
out-of the-way and impertinent elements which inspired the
surrealists. Walz discusses Louis Aragon's "Le paysan de Paris, "
one of the great surrealist novels of Paris. He goes on to consider
the popular series of Fantomes crime novels; the Parisan press
coverage of the arrest, trial, and execution of mass-murderer
Landru; and the surrealist inquiry "Is Suicide a Solution?," which
Walz juxtaposes with reprints of actual suicide "faits divers"
(sensationalist newspaper blurbs).
Although surrealist interest in sensationalist popular culture
eventually waned, this exploration of mass print culture as one of
the cultural milieux from which surrealism emerged ultimately calls
into question assumptions about the avant-garde origins of
modernism itself.
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