Jonathan P. Eburne
Jonathan P. Eburne teaches Comparative Literature and English at Penn State University. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime (Cornell UP, 2008), among other essays and edited volumes; he is founding co-editor of ASAP-Journal, the new scholarly journal of ASAP: the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. He lives and works in central Pennsylvania.
When I received Ara Merjian’s invitation to reflect on the centenary of the Manifesto of Surrealism, I was a few days shy of hip replacement surgery, a routine but physically demanding procedure.
In 1977, a construction crew conducting excavation work in the courtyard of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris uncovered a cache of buried limestone.
