This second OLSa project, launched by Manon Houtart and David Vrydaghs, aims to take a fresh look at the non-book works of Belgian and French Surrealists. Our focus will be, on the one hand, on all printed materials that fall outside traditional publishing channels: leaflets, flyers, counterfeit banknotes and invitations, signs carried by sandwich board men in the streets of Brussels, exhibition catalogs, advertising brochures, posters, collages, correspondence, fanzines (such as the one hundred issues of the handwritten journal *Vendredi*, sent by Paul Colinet to Robert Willems between 1949 and 1951, featuring contributions from numerous collaborators), etc.

We will also explore the boundaries of literature beyond the book by attempting to understand the meaning—for the Surrealists—of the effort to infuse poetry into everyday life. Amid chaos, pranks, and traps—amid rebellion and compromises—what forms did their desire to “live poetically” take?

The use of these diverse spaces to disseminate poetry and bring it to life calls for an examination of the relationships between the conception of literature, values, and media at the heart of Surrealism. What does bypassing the traditional channels of literary circulation mean, both symbolically and pragmatically? How does the choice of unconventional media contribute to the Surrealist endeavor to demystify literature and the figure of the writer? How do these practices resonate with other literary manifestations carried out outside the medium of the book throughout history, both earlier (notably by the Dadaists) and later (for example, by the Situationists)? What relationship between the private and public spheres, between the personal and the political, do these practices imply? The aim is to combine a literary analysis of non-book-based documents with a theoretical reflection on the links between values and media.

This research project was the focus of a one-day seminar at UNamur, which will result in a publication.