aventure

DESCRIPTION
- N° 1 (November 1921) - N° 3 (January 1922).
- Edited by Roger Vitrac and René Crevel. Published in Paris.
- 22.5 x 14.7 cm.
- Continued by Dès .

CONTRIBUTORS
P. Mac Orlan, Louis Aragon, H. Cliquennois, Georges Limbour, Roger Vitrac, Jacques Baron, Marcel Arland, Paul Valéry, Tristan Tzara, J. Paulhan, Max Jacob, Paul Dermée, Blaise Cendrars, René Crevel, Jean Cocteau, Raoul Dufy, André Dhôtel, Max Morise and others.

FACSIMILES/REPRINTS
online
- Digital Dada Library, International Dada Archive.

SECONDARY LITERATURE
Henri Béhar
'Aventure et Dés', in Cahiers de l’Association internationale pour l’étude de Dada et du surréalisme no. 1 (1966) 92-103.

René Crevel
René Crevel (1900-1935) was born in Paris. His father committed suicide while Crevel was a youth. Despite personal problems, Crevel excelled academically, atttending high school and university in the French capital. After university, Crevel entered the French military. There, he befriended several other young writers who introduced him to members of the popular Dada movement. Crevel's new friends included Breton and Eluard, who contributed to the journal Littérature. Their journalistic endeavors, in turn, inspired Crevel to introduce his own publication, Aventure. At the same time, he began writing novels.
As Crevel became involved in politics, he attempted to intermingle the harshly logical world of communism with the surrealist realm of the irrational. In the mid 1920s, Crevel became ill with tuberculosis and retreated to a sanatorium in Switzerland. His illness compounded his already existent depression, and frequent absences from his intellectual milieu diminished his influence among his literary and political peers. At a gathering of communists in 1935, Crevel begged for the surrealists who were present to be permitted to speak. When the communists ignored his request, Crevel went home and hung himself.
TEXT CREDITS
Text based Garett R. Heysel, from 'Rene Crevel’s Body Algebra', in Articulations of Difference. Gender Studies and Writing in French / ed. by Dominque D. Fisher and Lawrence R. Schehr (Stanford University Press : Stanford 1997). Reproduced in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism volume 112.
IMAGE CREDITS
See also: René Crevel Home.