Some unkown words from Jorge Cáceres and Aimé Césaire in the international context of Surrealism

Abstract

In his American exile, André Breton encourages the creation of the VVV journal (1942-1944) in New York and gets in touch with some other American journals of the period expressing themselves in English, French and also in Spanish. The knowledge of the André Breton’s letters preserved in Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris proves that the contact with the Chilean group of Mandragora and the Martinican Aimé Césaire was constant. Jorge Cáceres, Braulio Arenas and Enrique Gómez-Correa take part of VVV, just as André Breton and Benjamin Péret publish in Leit Motiv. These authors are present and participate in this chapter of the international Surrealism’s history. The relationship with Aimé Césaire shows the intense contacts during the Surrealism’s expansion. The letters from Jorge Cáceres and Aimé Césaire, partially reproduced in this article, provide new information about the topic