“Far from contradicting, diluting, or diverting our revolutionary attitude toward life, surrealism strengthens it. It nourishes an impatient strength within us, endlessly reinforcing the massive army of refusals.”
—Suzanne Césaire, whose poetry mocked “Littérature de hamac. Littérature de sucre et de vanille. Tourisme littéeraire.” Her writings of dissent were banned in the forties.