00112--How did Surrealism Contribute to the desacrilization of the image of the Author?

            Surrealism  was a movement launched in France with the publication of Andre Breton's Manifesto on Surrealism in 1924.  The aim the movement was to revolt against all restraints on free creativity, artistic conventions and norms and all control over the artistic process by forethought and intention.  To ensure the unhampered process of creation, Surrealism launched a new method of writing which they called automatic writing.  Through the surrealist jolt, the movement recommended the abrupt disappointment of expectations of meaning.  It entrusted the hand with the task of writing as quickly as possible, meaning what the head is unaware of.  Surrealism accepted the principle of several people writing together.  Through there concepts and practices, Barthes argues, surrealism contributed much to the desacrilization of the image of the Author.