Surrealist women / writings

About her friends, the surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, the poet Octavio Paz often spoke of "two witches "bewitched". The formula would also apply to Ithell Colquhoun, painter, poet and alchemist, who joined the ranks of surrealism in 1939. This collection of nineteen texts, ten of which are translated here into French for the first time, brings together writings from these three artists who made surrealism as well as esotericism their field of emancipation. From poetry to tale, from fable to initiatory story, these texts written between 1937 and 1975 escape the notion of literary genre. All, however, bear witness to the capital importance given to humor, black and surreal, to humor fantastic finally, in the heritage of Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Poe.