The above graphic was taken from the cover of André Breton's Les Manifestes du Surréalisme..., Le Sagittaire, [Paris], 1955 New edition, revised and enlarged. On a ribbon is a magnifying glass which fits into a hole especially cut from the body of the last section. The glass is to be used to view a hidden object.
This page will be devoted entirely to surrealist games and these collaborative games are open to all; click on the link(s) of your choice below. Playing games is a surrealist tradition and is a favourite of mine. Relax your mind leaving any preconceived notions behind and play as quickly as possible; responses should be brief. The questions must be approached irrationally rather than objectively. E-mail me your responses and I will publish them on the respective game page; give the name of the game and numbered answers. It is not necessary to relist questions. Games from the original surrealist movement, modern surrealist games, and games from current surrealists will be included. If anyone has a game they would like to submit, please mail it to me. Have fun and let the games begin!
"What our friends and I mean by surrealism is known up to a certain point. This word is not of our invention and we might very well have left it to the most vague critical vocabulary, but we use it with a precise meaning: we are agreed it designates a certain psychic automatism, a near equivalent to the dream state, whose limits are today quite difficult to define."
--André Breton, Littérature, new series, no. 6 (November 1922).
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