Refugee Arturo Schwarz, King of Surrealism, Dies at 97

Growing up in Egypt’s cosmopolitan port city of Alexandria in the 1930s and ’40s, Arturo Schwarz idolized European intellectuals. He started a correspondence in his 20s with André Breton, the chief theorist of Surrealism. He also helped found the Egyptian section of the Fourth International, a dissident communist group that pledged allegiance to Leon Trotsky. …