Anonymous [Debord, Guy]. Les Cahiers de l’Encyclopedie du Monde Actuel no. 35. Le Surréalisme, une révolution de l’irrationnel. Lausanne: Rencontres, September 1968. 32 p.; ill.; 14 x 20 cm.; ill. B&W wrappers with pictures of surrealist books and leaflets.
Text attributed to Guy Debord, which features a brief history of the Surrealist movement.
Gerard Berreby, who spoke to Donald Nicholson-Smith, Mustapha Khayati, and a few others explains the genesis of the Situationists’ participation to the Encyclopedie du Monde Actuel: “The participation of the “situationist group” in the Encyclopédie du monde actuel [EDMA] wasn’t official. There were a few small-paying jobs to which some members of the SI devoted themselves. The work consisted in drafting “EDMA cards” and, eventually, monthly booklets. (Each perforated card included a 500-word-long text; each booklet contained around 30 illustrated pages.) At the start, in 1966, it was my wife, Cathy Pozzo di Borgo, and I who began to produce, on a freelance basis, this type of card under the direction of André Fougerousse – Cathy’s stepfather – for publication by Editions Rencontre in Lausanne. Along with Charles-Henri Favrod, Fougerousse had been (in 1962) one of the founders of this editorial project. Later on, we passed the cards “to be done” to friends, including Mustapha and Raoul [Vaneigem]…The members of the SI, no doubt with Raoul at the head, had, for the most part, continued to contribute to EDMA more or less until 1974. In this way, many of the booklets were written by situationists or ex-situs – even after the dissolution of the movement in 1972. Guy Debord drafted Le Surréalisme in September 1968. ” (translation by NotBored!; emphasis is mine).
Uncommon, with a single copy on OCLC and none in the trade.
We reproduce the text in full below as we do not believe it is available anywhere online
I’ve just completed a draft translation of this. Still need to edit before publishing. It’s mostly a fairly standard historical account of the surrealists with some very interesting situ critique of their origins and trajectory. Alongside Vaneigem’s short book and the articles in the journal this is an important contribution to understanding the situ critique of surrealism and modern art.
Once the translation is available, I can post it here.
Sure, that would be great.
Great finding! But there’s a much better pdf copy at Scribd, at least for extracting the text: https://www.scribd.com/document/407673352/Le-Surre-alisme-Cahiers-de-l-encyclope-die-du-monde-actuel-pdf
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:21 AM Situationniste Blog wrote:
> elhajoui posted: ” Anonymous [Debord, Guy]. Les Cahiers de l’Encyclopedie > du Monde Actuel no. 35. Le Surréalisme, une révolution de l’irrationnel. > Lausanne: Rencontres, September 1968. 32 p.; ill.; 14 x 20 cm.; ill. B&W > wrappers with pictures of surrealist books and l” >
Thanks ! Great for pointing it out!