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LOWY, Michael. Walter Benjamin y el surrealismo: historia de un encantamiento revolucionario. Acta poét [online]. 2007, vol.28, n.1-2, pp.73-92. ISSN 2448-735X.

The encounter with surrealism in 1926-27 roused a "passionate interest" in Benjamin. The spirit of gothic Marxism that consisted in a magic of the past, a rending illumination and the emphasis on revolt, represented in Benjamin "the last instant of the European intelligence". Against the "moralist dilettantism" of the disillusioned bourgeois, a revolutionary politics was demanded that counted on the forces of "inebriation" and the charge of an active and organized pessimism -an idea given by an active member of the surrealist movement, Pierre Naville. The energetic compromise with revolution which is no other than Marxist, had its source in that pessimism. It is a convergence point of anthropological materialism and the dialectic image of dream contrasted by Benjamin's concept of awakening, conceived in the Arcades' Project as an opposition to surrealism.

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