Estonian Poetic Surrealism: Laaban and Ehin
Estonian Poetic Surrealism: Laaban and Ehin

Summary/Abstract: In the first Manifeste du surréalisme, in 1924, André Breton (2000: 24) wrote that there is a legend about Saint-Pol-Roux who used to have a notice posted on his manor door every evening before he went to sleep, which read: LE POÈTE TRAVAILLE. And, inspired by the controversial poet Laurent Tailhade, who commented on a bombing in the Chamber of Deputies in 1893 with his famous words “Qu’importe la victime si le geste est beau”, André Breton fired in the Deuxième Manifeste du surréalisme, in 1929 (2000: 74): “L’acte surréaliste le plus simple consiste, revolvers aux poings, à descendre dans la rue et à tirer au hasard, tant qu’on peut, dans la foule.”

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