Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous: Surrealist Contributions to the Critique of Miserabilism

About the author

Franklin Rosemont was born on October 2, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician. He edited and wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, and edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DIL PICKLE and Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited THE FORECAST IS HOT!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) and of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biography of Joe Hill. He died on April 12, 2009, in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Franklin Rosemont
• Publisher: Charles Kerr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780882863504
• ISBN: 978-0-88286-350-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies