Sarane Alexandrian

Sarane Alexandrian is an essay writer, novelist, historian of art, criticizes literary French.

Born in 1927 with Baghdad, Sarane Alexandrian came at the age six years to Paris. At twenty years, it binds with André Breton which invites it to take part in the International exhibition of Surrealism and designates it as the spokesperson of the generation of surrealist of post-war period.

After begin with this activity from avant-garde, Sarane Alexandrian published novels, tests, monographs on art, in very nearly sixty books, primarily of works of analysis of the literature, art and erotism. It founded the review Supérieur unknown , whose André Breton had found the title in 1948, and prefaced several exposures (max Ernst, Roger Langlais, Matta, etc).

(1) “Roger Langlais entitles drawings dubious Paysage or fantastic Paysage (repetition and innovation) , it celebrates a flora in revolt, like that of vegetable Anger , it puts in the high-speed motorboat the preferred Fleur , with the lancéolée form, pretense to leave to the conquest the sky, and the Eye of the witch , another frightening flower paralyzing of fear the traveller. All that made think of what is said, in the Manifeste of surrealism , the poets devoting itself to the automatic writing: “One crosses, with a quiver, which the occultists call of the dangerous landscapes.” These landscapes are threatening, indeed, the dangers and the traps which they conceal are entrevisibles, and their noxious forces increase with fallen the day ( the come night ) or with the approach of the bad weather ( cruel Ciel , the Tuning fork of the storm ). No need to go at the end of the world to face these landscapes: it is enough to go at the end of Ego. It is mental virgin forest which Roger Langlais was made the explorer. ” (Sarane Alexandrian, Roger Langlais through the dangerous landscapes , Paris, Guillet Gallery, 2001.) Cf Infosurr , October 2001.

Bibliography (not integral)

  • the Adventure in oneself. Autobiography (Mercure de France)

  • André Breton by itself (Threshold)
  • Surrealism and the dream (Gallimard)
  • romantic Socialism (Threshold)
  • Histoire of philosophy occults (Seghers)
  • Histoire of the erotic literature (Seghers)
  • Hans Bellmer (Filipacchi)
  • the Liberators of the love (Threshold)
  • max Ernst (Somogy)
  • the Sexuality of Narcisse (the Garden of the Books)

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