Journal d’un Fantome

Journal d’un Fantome is an original modern rare book written by Philipppe Soupault (Chaville, 1897 – Paris, 1990) and illustrated by Various Artists (Brauner, Masson and Labisse) in 1946.

Original Edition.

Published Editions du Point du Jour, Paris.

Format: In 8°.

The book includes 224 pages with Nine full page illustrations.   

Mint conditions.

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Journal d’un fantome is an original modern rare book engraved by various different artists; the main are Brauner, Masson and Labisse.

The Surrealism is an important 20th Century style and cultural movement in art and literature which attempted to represent dream elements and experiences of the unconscious mind by means such as combining images in an unexpected or irrational way. Works of Surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur. However, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost (for instance, of the "pure psychic automatism" Breton speaks of in the first Surrealist Manifesto), with the works themselves being secondary, i.e. artifacts of surrealist experimentation.

Philippe Soupault (Chaville, 1897 – Paris, 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later was instrumental in founding the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, Les Champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. In 1927 Soupault, with the help of his then wife Marie-Louise, translated William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience into French. The next year, Soupault authored a monograph on Blake, arguing the poet was a "genius" whose work anticipated the Surrealist movement in literature.