Traitor Comet
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Paperback
Retail Price: $21.95
Who are these Surrealists, and why would they befriend me?
I shook my head. “There must be someplace... There’s got to be some way for a man to live.”
“Why not look for it here?” Robert Desnos asked. “I’ll help you, and so will Artaud.”
“In Paris?” I glanced around contemptuously. “No offense, but being a man of letters sitting in some café with his blood as pale as his skin—”
“But I agree with you!” Desnos exclaimed, amused. “I feel exactly as you do about academics in tweed, playing pimp with poems. You’ll meet the same problem no matter where you go. The world has been explored. The whole goddamned world has been at war.”
I shrugged. “I know.”
“Instead of walking where the footprints already are, and calling that an adventure—”
“Adventure,” I sneered without intending to, “is that what you call what we did this afternoon? A childish prank, that’s all it was.”
Desnos regarded me as I shoved at the pile of wood with my toe. “So what is your idea of adventure, Weidmann?” he demanded. “Enjoying beautiful women? Exploring Africa? Going to war? Couldn’t war be someone else’s childish prank?”
Earnestly I asked, “What’s your idea of adventure?”
Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 397 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 28, 2023)
ISBN10: 1977260829
ISBN13: 9781977260826
Genre: FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century