The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing
of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the
Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of
Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his
life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism
itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on
concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer
a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France’s most
significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a
masterful introductory essay by Claudine Frank situating his work
in the context of his life and intellectual milieu, this anthology
is the first comprehensive introduction to Caillois’s work to
appear in any language. These thirty-two essays with commentaries
strike a balance between Caillois’s political and theoretical
writings and between his better known works, such as the popular
essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his
lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on
interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals
Caillois’s consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and
imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of
Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois’s
intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille
and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and
Lévi-Strauss.
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