LES GISANTS SATISFAITS. 1958.

Paris: Pauvert, 1958

13 x 16cm. 240pp. Textual illustrations in b/w by Max Walter Svanberg. Wrappers with a pictorial design by Svanberg.

First trade edition of this remarkable Surrealist narrative. Mansour was arguably the most important female proponent of the movement’s aims after WWII. Les Gisants Satisfaits is nothing less than a post-modern melding of eroticism (in extremis) and Feminist discourse. Svanberg’s images more than complement the complex alchemy of Mansour’s text.