Praise
Without René Crevel we would have lost one of the most beautiful pillars of surrealism.
Crevel remains one of the most readable Surrealists...His liquid language tumbles along, powered by his strong descriptions, by his love of Freudian wordplay—rarely is a cigar just a cigar.
The works that Crevel left us indicate that he was one of the most original, gifted French novelists of the century.
Crevel actually wrote only a single sentence: the long sentence of a feverish monologue from the pen of a Proust who dipped his biscuit laced with LSD into his tea, instead of the unctuous madeleine.
This is an astonishing capture of Crevel's most memorable text: funny, sad, spilling over, and unputtable down.
He will be read more and more as the wind carries away the ashes of the ‘great names’ that preceded him.
Extras
Check out these photos of Crevel and his Surrealist friends:
From left to right: Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel & Man Ray, 1933.
Andre Breton (l) talks with Rene Crevel (second from right), while Salvador Dali (second from left) and Paul Eluard (r) look on. | Located in: Bibliotheque d’Art et d’Archeologie, Fondation Jacques Doucet, Paris, France.