Abstract
Claude Maillard-Chary, War Imaginary in Surrealist Poetry With Apollinaire, war imagery was introduced into vanguard poetry, depriving it of any reaction against the cult of violence which was dwarfed to the proportions of a child's game. Against this trend, and notwithstanding their fascination with « the Enchanter », the surrealists sought to revive the horror of war through use of automatic messages, accounts of dreams and psychotic minidramas based upon ravings and obsessions of soldiers back from the front. We see here, in the first surrealist generation's baptism of blood, the appearance of a crack in the edifice of modernity.
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