LE RAYON INVISILE

LE RAYON INVISILE

THE INVISIBLE RAY

• Publishing Company:

  SYLVAIN COISSARD AGENCY/SCOUT

• Imprint:

  DENOEL GRAPHIC

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  DAMIEN MACDONALD

• Number of Pages:

  144

• Cover price:

  € 25.00

• Publication Date:

  August 2024

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  ART HISTORY,

• Summary:

  • “Surrealism is the ‘invisible ray’ which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.” André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924
  • A veritable Who’s Who for the Surrealist movement, a vade mecum of its visions and intuitions, The Invisible Ray is first and foremost an astonishing graphic novel, overflowing with humor, beauty, inventiveness, rage, and mischief
  • A work to accompany the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism.
  Breton coined the term “black humor,” a concept which shaped him. Those who wanted to exfiltrate him during WWII were told by the authorities that he was “a dangerous anarchist and a long-time wanted man by the French police.” This troublemaker, dynamiter, and anti-rambler unleashed a tidal wave of cryptic, libertarian, and liberating thought on the 20th century that would pave the way for all of our modernities. This Invisible Ray, which he evokes in his first Manifesto, thus becomes a weapon of mass reconstruction reminiscent of Blake and Mortimer, powerful enough to trigger the long- awaited Surrealist Revolution and entrusts the entire universe to the poetic absolute. Above all, a fantastic machine to return to today’s limelight this Big Bang from the last century, whose repercussions have not—and never will—run dry.