Theory of the Great Game - Writings from Le Grand Jeu

Theory of the Great Game: Writings from Le Grand Jeu / ISBN 9781900565677 / 192-page hardback from Atlas Press / edited, translated with introduction by Dennis Duncan. Text by René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Maurice Henry, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Roger Vailland, et al. Photographs by Arthur Harfaux. *** This book collects the writings of a radical group of writers close to Paris Surrealism--principally René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte--as published in their now legendary magazine, Le Grand Jeu (The Great Game). Le Grand Jeu ran to three issues between 1928 and 1930, before collapsing due to its editors' infighting, drug use and vehemently unreasonable aspirations for both art and life. The Grand Jeu is often associated with Surrealism (they were invited to join the group), but their ideas were far more extreme. The magazine was the public face of a group of artists and writers who systematically attacked their perceptions of reality through narcotics, anaesthesia and near