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Article: The Paris of Rene Crevel.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
- Author:
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Although Crevel spent his life in Paris, he always felt something of an outsider in the capital. This article shows how Crevel's Paris serves, in turn, as a locus of homosexual pleasures (especially those of the bal musette), a source of verbal puns, and a site of socio-economic inequalities. Whereas many other Surrealist writers celebrate the city as a theatre of le merveilleux, Crevel's perspective is far more critical. His work therefore contributes a neglected dimension to our understanding of the Paris of the Surrealists.
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