summarizes the basic objectives of Surrealism as: (1) the alienation of sensation; (2) the exploration of "objective hazard"-that is, the study of the unpredictable and seemingly illogical forces which control the succession of events; (3) the insatiable quest for the unknown. With quotations from Breton, Aragon, Crevel, Eluard, Desnos, Soupault, Tzara and Dr. Charcot, Mrs. Balakian expounds more specificallythe Surrealists' opposition to science and to a rational conception of reality, their cult of disorder (or hazard), hysteria and mental derangements, the banishment of memory, the repudiation of love of home and country, the destruction of logical language and the development of a new merveilleux which has its roots in the absurd.

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