Correspondance

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Acknowledgments

Many persons and institutions have to be thanked for their role in the various phases of this book.

First of all, we are grateful to all inheritors of the Correspondance tracts and their legal representatives: Pierrette Broodthaers and SABAM Belgium (for Paul Nougé), Camille-Grégor Goemans (for Camille Goemans), and Philippe Dewolf and the Musée des Beaux-Arts Brussels (for Marcel Lecomte). Not only have they kindly granted permission to translate and reprint this work, but in many cases their knowledge and expertise has helped solve riddles in the text.

We would like to extend our special thanks to all those who during the many years of this project have been supporting of our work: Marc Quaghebeur, managing director of the Archives et Musée de la littérature (Brussels), who has accompanied our enterprise from the very beginning till the very end, Paul Aron, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, whose first French facsimile edition was an indispensable working instrument, Eric Wirth, Associate Managing Editor of PMLA, whose careful and professional help was key in the publication of some first fragments of the English Correspondance (“The Birth of ← VII | VIII → Belgian Surrealism: Excerpts from Correspondance (1924–1925)”, PMLA 128.2 (2013), 452–467), Philippe Met, professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania and Editor in chief of French Forum, who accepted to publish a commented version of some other fragments (“Correspondance: Mail Art and Literary Appropriation in the 1920s”, in French Forum 38.1/2 (2013), 109–126), Michel Delville, Prof. of American Studies at the Université de Liège who kindly accepted our invitation to write a preface, Donald Friedman, who very enthusiastically accepted our work for publication in this series, and Mary Kasper, who assisted in production.

Our most sincere thanks as well to the institutions that helped make possible the actual production of this book: the Archives et musée de la littérature as well as Xavier Canonne, director of the Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi), for their invaluable help with all practical and legal issues related to the iconography, the University of Leuven (MDRN research project) and BELSPO (Belgian Science Policy Office, IAP Program 7/01, LMI: Literature and Media Innovation), which generously supported this project. We thank also the Service de la Promotion des lettres as well as the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, which also provided a special grant to this publication.

With the generous support of:

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Preface