Fragmentary writing in J.V. Foix’s surrealist criticism and poetry

This article addresses a little-known episode in the surrealist movement: the adventurous (if not hindered) integration of surrealism into Iberian literature and art, particularly J.V. Foix’s intervention through critical (in La Publicitat ) and poetical writing ( Gertrudis , 1927, and KRTU , 1932), and his collaboration with Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró. Foix accomplished the dynamic process of transforming and reconfiguring the meaning and function of surrealist aesthetics in Catalonia in a complex network and context. Reading Foix not only as a philological issue, but also against an international background, and from the fragmentary writing perspective, will enrich traditional approaches and provide an insight into Catalan surrealism.