What was the name of the Surrealist journal first published in Paris in December 1924?
Answer
La Révolution surréaliste
The Surrealist journal first published in Paris in December 1924 was La Révolution surréaliste.
The periodical appeared soon after André Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto and helped establish Surrealism as an organized cultural movement. Its title means “The Surrealist Revolution,” signaling the group’s ambition to transform thought, art, literature, and everyday life rather than merely create unusual pictures.
La Révolution surréaliste published poems, essays, declarations, investigations, and images. Contributors included major figures such as Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, and Robert Desnos. The journal’s pages explored dreams, automatic writing, sexuality, madness, politics, and the unconscious.
The publication ran for twelve issues between 1924 and 1929. It is not the same as Littérature, the earlier magazine associated with Breton and other avant-garde writers, or Minotaure, a later Surrealist-oriented art journal launched in 1933. Its first issue is an important documentary marker for the movement’s early public identity.