BATAILLE, Un Cadavre, 1930

First edition.
Pamphlet of incredible violence orchestrated by Georges Bataille against André Breton, taking up the idea of the pamphlet that the surrealist group itself had written in 1924 upon the death of Anatole France.
Bataille will say, when returning to this episode a few years later, that he had 500 copies printed, of which he would have thrown away 200 copies during a move.
Among the contributors we find Michel Leiris, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Prévert, Robert Desnos...Bataille wrote a virulent text entitled "The Chatré Lion" in which he wrote: "Here lies the Breton beef, the old esthete, false revolutionary with the head of Christ"
On the first page a photomontage by Boiffard shows a Breton "enchristed", his forehead surrounded by a crown of thorns.