Marcel Jean (1900-1993) French artist and scholar, central figure of the Paris surrealist group, painter sculptor and poet. Marcel Jean's anthology documenting the history of surrealism, lets "the surrealists tell their own story, and [he] has woven carefully selected and newly translated extracts from their writings into a narrative format that guides the reader through a fascinating maze of poetry, fiction, drama, polemics and other documents. The first part of this remarkable collection is devoted to the "ancestors" of surrealism (...) -- from the blurb.