![]() ![]() Rather like William Burroughs and Brion Gysin's cut-up technique, exquisite corpse allows writers to bypass the normal modes and limitations of narrative form. The surrealists wanted to exploit the "mystique of accident", creating fragments of prose or poetry that revealed what they described as "the unconscious reality in the personality of the group". As I was saying, such great names as André Breton, Marchel Duchamp, Man Ray and Henry Miller were involved, and one of their random sentences gave the form its name: "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" ("The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine").īreton later said the exercise had started as fun, but eventually became an "enriching" way of working. I seem to have wandered off into an exquisite corpse paragraph of my own. Such great names as André Breton were dust collapsing into planets the elliptical waltz of the galaxy lights pricked out the course of the road … Exquisite corpse writing was a variation on the old parlour game Consequences, developed by the surrealists in the early 20th century, in which a person jots something down, conceals most of it and passes it on for the next person to add the next sentence or part of a sentence. ![]()
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