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Philippe Soupault
Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897, Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine – 12 March 1990, Paris) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical "Littérature" together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, "Les Champs magnétiques" (1920)
Les Champs magnétiques
" Les Champs magnétiques " "(The Magnetic Fields)" is a book by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. It is famous as the first work of literary Surrealism. It was published in 1920; the authors used a surrealist automatic writing technique.
The book is considered Surrealist, rather than Dadaist, because it attempts to create something new rather than react to an existing work.
"Les Champs magnetiques" is characterised by rich textured language that often seems to border on the nonsensical. This