Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. What was living and what was dead in Surrealism? This collection responds to this question unequivocally, examining not only the artistic aspects of surrealism, but its political aspects. If there is any truth to the notion that the drowning see their whole life replayed before their eyes in a few short seconds, Surrealism may well be described as the last dream of a foundering culture. Jules-François Dupuis was a pseudonym of the Belgian writer Raoul Veneigem, who was a leading light in the Situationist International. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.