Analysis reinterprets sexual and political themes in Desnos's narrative, highlighting Betrons’s intertext.
La liberté ou l'amour! can be read as a symptom of Robert Desnos's reconfiguration of surrealism, where it is possible to read a re-articulation of the erotic and the political that is not that of Breton surrealism. It is a text that reconnects with the origins of surrealism: on the one hand, the signifier 'freedom'; on the other, by implementing as its intertext number 22 of Poisson soluble by André Breton. These two gestures refer to the First Manifesto of Surrealism. The connection with the origins is not a nostalgic one, but rather it is executed in view of projecting a future for surrealism, one that anticipates Breton's mad love. Through a reading of Breton's intertext in the first truly narrative chapter of La Liberté ou l'amour! I intend to elucidate the signs of the re-articulation of surrealism in Robert Desnos.
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