Editing Surrealist techniques (section)

==Automatism==
{{Main|Surrealist automatism}}Automatism was used in different ways for each art: 
* Automatic drawing
* Automatic painting
* Automatic writing
* Automatic poetry is [[poetry]] written using the [[surrealist automatism|automatic method]].  It has probably been the chief surrealist method from the founding of surrealism to the present day. One of the oddest uses of automatic writing by a great writer was that of [[W. B. Yeats]]; his wife, a spiritualist, practised it, and Yeats put large chunks of it into his prose work, ''[[A Vision]]'' and much of his later poetry, but Yeats was not a surrealist. In French surrealism, [[André Breton]] and [[Philippe Soupault]] were often considered as the pioneers of this technique with their collection [[Les Champs magnétiques]] (1919), who claimed to be the first collection only written through the automatic method : but recent studies<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parent |first=Stéphanie |date=2001 |title=" Le manuscrit des "Champs magnétiques" d'André Breton et Philippe Soupault: le paradoxe de l'écriture automatique. " |url=http://oic.uqam.ca/fr/system/files/garde/371/documents/cf4-12-parent-le_manuscrit_des_champs_magnetiques.pdf |journal=Centre de recherche sur le texte et l'imaginaire. coll. Figura |volume= 4 |pages=139–148}}</ref> have proven the manuscripts showed many variants and corrections throughout the poems.

The Czech writer [[Bohumil Hrabal]] used the method of automatic text in his famous book ''[[I Served the King of England]]''. One chapter in the book is written as a single sentence, and at the end of the book Hrabal endorses the use of automatic writing.