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Grandville the Precursor

Abstract This 1934 essay casts the nineteenth-century graphic artist J.J. Grandville as a precursor of surrealism, Walt Disney and George Méliès. Mac Orlan claims that his primary motivation in writing the piece is to connect Grandville and cinema, exemplified here by the Technicolor Disney Silly Symphony, The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934). This essay, which touches on its author’s signature theory of a “social fantastic,” carries a certain supplementary value in having been included in Walter Benjamin’s preparatory materials for his Passagen-Werk, or Arcades Project, assembled between the late 1920s and his death in 1940.