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Aspley, Keith
About the author: Keith Aspley is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of André Breton the Poet (Glasgow, 1989) and co-editor of several other books on French literature and culture.
2002 0-7734-7358-0This is the first study in English devoted to Philippe Soupault, one of the founder-members of the Surrealist movement. Although he regarded himself primarily as a poet, he also wrote novels, a number of plays, and a heterogeneous set of biographical or critical studies. In addition, his activity in publishing brought him into contact with international authors, and his work as a journalist enabled him to report first-hand on Hitler’s rise to power, and to compare conditions in the Soviet Union and the United States in the early 1930s. This study examines questions of truth and fiction, the reliability of memory, modes of writing, and the problems these pose for biographer and/or critic.