Revolutionaries Without Revolution.
New York: Macmillan, 1975. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine uinclipped dust jacket. Thirion, a French revolutionary, was a prominent member of the French avant-garde involved in the Marxist-surrealist movement in Paris after World War I. His fellow "revolutionaries" included the likes of Breton, Aragon, Dali, Miro, and Giacometti. Thiron joined the Communist party in 1925 and he joined the surrealist movement in 1928. He was a friend of Louis Aragon and Georges Sadoul and was active with the surrealists between 1928 and 1934. During the Second World War, he joined the Gaullist resistance. Thiron's autobiography captures the lost period between the wars and the rise in ideological disputes that followed; it is the journal of one man's devotion and disillusionment when the world was changing in revolutionary ways. Item #27168
ISBN: 0026174006
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