%X The essay traces the fascination of the Surrealists for the modern city - as embodied, in particular, by Paris - to the influence of Baudelaire, Nietzsche and de Chirico, illustrating the changes that Surrealism engendered in modern perceptions of the urban space as metaphorical of human consciousness on both individual and collective levels %A Silvia Loreti %C Paris %B La ville magique %I Gallimard %T Le Surréalisme et la ville %D 2012 %L eprints1546 %P 129-134