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“By chance along the paths.
In early May 1924, Aragon, Breton, Morise, and Vitrac undertook a walking travel-experiment from Blois to the Sologne. They went to Blois, a town chosen at random on the map, and set out on foot for the Sologne. They stayed briefly in Cour-Cheverny, passed through Romorantin on the 5th, Argent on the 7th, Moret-sur-Loing on the 9th, returned to Cour-Cheverny on the 12th, and were in Romorantin again on the 13th and 14th. They then returned via Gien, Montargis, and Moret-sur-Loing, abandoning the walk and thus being forced to end the experiment.”
The group decided to leave Paris and take a train to Blois, then continue on foot to Romorantin. Breton recalled what he called a “four-person ramble”, talking and walking together for several consecutive days as a form of “exploration to the limits between conscious life and dreamed life.” Upon returning, he wrote the introduction to Poisson Soluble, which later became the First Surrealist Manifesto, introducing the first definition of Surrealism:
“Pure psychic automatism by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other means, the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, outside of any aesthetic or moral concern.”
The journey, undertaken without purpose or goal, became an experience of automatic writing in real space, a literary-rural walk imprinted directly onto the map of the mental territory.
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Sources: andrebreton.fr and Francesco Careri, Walkscapes.
Credits
The walk was undertaken by André Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Morise, and Roger Vitrac.
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