Disavowals claude cahun biography

1930 autobiography by Claude Cahun

Disavowals or cancelled confessions (French: Aveux non Avenus) is an anti-realist, surrealistautobiography by Claude Cahun.

It was created to serve as a critique of the dominant cultural conservatism in France through the subversion of traditional autobiography with the use of illustrated photomontages alongside the artist's own aphorisms in the aftermath of World War I.

Publication

Adrienne Monnier rejected the book after Cahun presented to her in 1928 after Monnier had recommended they write a confessional. Cahun responded:

"You have told me to write a confession because you know only too well that this is currently the only literary task that might seem to me first and foremost realizable, where I feel at ease, permit myself a direct link, contact with the real world, with the facts."^[1]

In May 1930, Cahun succeeded in publication despite Adrienne's rejection with a limite