[RADICAL LITERATURE - SURREALISM] CALAS, Nicolas (aka Nikolas Kalamaris)

Foyers D'Incendie

Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Printed paper wrappers; 261pp. Text mostly unopened. Fading to spine, with scuffing to publisher's price-sticker; expected toning to text; still a tight, lightly worn copy, Very Good. Text entirely in French. There was no numbered issue.

Quite presentable copy of Calas' first surrealist work, written shortly after his relocation to Paris from his native Athens. Foyers d'Incendie ("Hearths of Arson"), based in large part on Calas' reading of Trotsky's theoretical works on the role of literature in revolution, won high praise from André Breton and would become one of the great forgotten texts of Marxist Surrealism, never being reprinted in French and translated into only a few languages. Calas would later move to the U.S., where he collaborated with Charles Henri Ford on the American surrealist journal View. GERSHMAN p.12.

Price: $200.00

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