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Adventures
in 'Pataphysics: Collected Works I by Alfred Jarry, Paul Edwards
(Translator), Antony Melville (Translator)
Hebdomeros
: With Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings
by Giorgio De Chirico - HEBDOMEROS is quite unearthly and would be a disappointment
to anyone looking for a conventional novel. But you are likely here for
something else. It moves with the logic of a dream, passing from one scene
to the next with the same warp of tension a plotted novel might have, yet
HEBDOMEROS has no plot, it is errant, distracted. "It's strange," Hebdomeros
was thinking, "as for me, the idea that something had escaped my understanding
would keep me awake at nights, whereas people in general are not in the
least perturbed when they see or read or things that they find completely
obscure." This from the opening page, a comment on its own strangeness,
instructing the reader a little in what is to come. And what follows is
completely beautiful.
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Famous Paris Artists
Books by or about
Andre Breton
Nadja
by Andre Breton, Richard Howard (Translator) - Nadja has far more to
offer than just a simple love story. Superficially it is an account of
Breton's wandering through the streets of 1920s Paris with his eponymous
mad heroine. Paris becomes a magical, fluid reality, peopled with sphinxes
and shaped by extraordinary events and coincidences. But dig deeper and
you will find a rewarding, if sometimes complex, commentary on time, space,
memory and the city. Bearing in mind Breton's interest in psychoanalysis
and Marxist revolution (in Nadja he even tells us of his purchase of Trotsky's
latest work from the Humanite bookstore), the novel may be read as a conscious
subversion of bourgeois conventions. Everything in Nadja, from the narrative
to the intriguing photographs supplied by various surrealist photographers
such as J.A. Boiffard, intervenes to challenge and disrupt conventional
reality and the status quo. It seems to me that Nadja is all about the
creation of alternative realities, a sur-reality. Some would call this
Breton's form of escapism from the harsh realities of post-world-war Paris
in the era of high capitalism, but Breton's surreal Paris always carries
the promise of revolution and change. Nadja is a work that can be enjoyed
on so many levels, and is definitely worth re-reading.
Revolution
of the Mind :
The Life of Andre Breton
by Mark Polizzotti - Polizzotti skillfully covers all of Breton's influential
critical, polemical, and creative activities, providing brisk but telling
profiles of his friends, colleagues, and loved ones. He also conveys the
full extent of the turbulence that dominated Breton's complex personality.
A magnetic man given to "violent enthusiasms" and mood swings, Breton possessed
a prodigious memory and was fascinated by everything from anarchism to
Communism, psychic automatism, Dada, dreams, coincidence, and the "marvelous,"
or unexplainable.
Mad
Love by Andre Breton, Mary Ann Caws (Translator)- Andre Breton's Mad
Love is truly a work of art.Written in a surrealist manner it celebrates
love and lovers. It finds beauty in such ordinary things such as iron masks,
spoons, and trees. Never has there been another book that promotes romanticism
such as this. Bravo Breton!
Communicating
Vessels = Les Vases Communicants
(French Modernist Library)
by Andre Breton, Mary
Ann Caws (Translator), Geoffrey T. Harris (Translator)
Notebook
of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Aime Cesaire, Annette
Smith (Translator), Clayton Eshleman (Translator), Andre Breton (Introduction)
Constellations
of Miro, Breton
by Paul Hammond
Anthology
of Black Humor
by Andre Breton (Editor),
Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
The
Automatic Message, the Magnetic Fields, the Immaculate Conception (Atlas
Anti-Classics)
by Andre Breton, Philippe
Soupault, Paul Eluard, David Gascoyne (Translator)
Breton's
Arcanum 17: With Apertures: Grafted to the End (tr. Zack Rogow - soft $).
Manifestoes
of Surrealism
Andre Breton Helen
R. Lane (Translator) Richard Seaver (Translator)
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RELATED OTHERS
Paris
Peasant
by Louis Aragon, Simon
W. Taylor (Translator)
Paris Peasant (1926)
is one of the central works of Surrealism, a work that helps define the
movement itself; yet this is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson
Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with
the author. Unconventionalin form - Aragon self-consciously avoided any
recognizable narration or character development - but fiercely lyrical,
Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, "a mythology
of the modern." The
book uses the city of Paris as a framework,...
Maldoror
& the Complete Works of the Comte De Lautreamont by Lautreamont,
Alexis Lykiard (Translator), Comte De Lautreamont, al Lykiard, Conte de
Lautreamont
André Breton wrote
that Maldoror is "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to
exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author
aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846), and
early death in Paris (1870). Lautréamont's writings bewildered his
contemporaries but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his lawless
black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted slogan,
"As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine
and an umbrella!" Maldoror's shocked first publisher refused to bind the
sheets of the original edition... and perhaps no better invitation exists
to this book which warns the reader, "Only the few may relish this bitter
fruit without danger." This is the only complete annotated collection of
Lautréamont's writings available in English, in a superior translation.
Aurélia is a document
of dreams, obsession, and insanity. An account of Nerval's unrequited passion
for an actress and subsequent descent into madness, this book was a favorite
of artist Joseph Cornell's, and its author was championed by both Marcel
Proust and André Breton. One of the original self-styled "bohemians,"
Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue
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