A week of kindness

With “A Week of Kindness”, probably the most famous of collage books, Prairial Editions Completes Reissue of Surrealist Novels Trilogy by Max Ernst. Published in 1934, this masterpiece draws on the same sources as “The “Woman with 100 Heads” (1929) and “Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Enter Carmel” (1930) to give substance to his monsters and his nocturnal visions: the novels popular and scientific journals of the 19th century. But he goes further by its breadth, its formal perfection and its sadistic darkness, that of an era where everything already pointed to the Second World War.