Rightious Revolt

Written at a moment when its authors had still received no word in five years of the survival of surrealism elsewhere in the world, Dialectique de la dialectique was at the same time a mayday signal from a band of poets marooned in Eastern Europe, a reaffirmation of unshakeable fidelity to Breton, dialectical materialism and objective chance, and a challenge to the continuing existence of surrealism as a revolutionary course of action rather than the comfortable (and recuperable) artistic rebellion it had sometimes threatened to become in the 1930s. Luca and Trost had the temerity to warn the international movement against the dangers of becoming just another artistic style, and proposed radical new means to reignite the surrealist imagination: the critical approach to dreams, the rejection of existing artistic procedures, the promotion of eroticism as a concrete solution to class divisions, the ending of servitude to Œdipal impulses (Luca's theory of non-Œdipal being), the poetic appropriation of quantum science, and the perpetual reevaluation and reinvention of surrealism, "in continual opposition to the world and to itself".