André Breton

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802150268

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Nadja by André Breton Pdf

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Painters
ISBN : UOM:39015055840394

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Surrealism and Painting by André Breton Pdf

Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting remains one of the masterworks of twentieth-century art criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520239547

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André Breton by André Breton Pdf

"This is a kind of "essence of Breton", variously translated by some of our finest writers, each of whom highlights different facets of Breton's complex work. Mark Polizzotti's useful introduction provides context and a brief analysis of the artist and his times."—Diane di Prima, author of Recollections of My Life as a Woman "Mark Polizzotti, who is a poet, a translator, and the author of the definitive biography of André Breton, has chosen stellar translations of Breton's dazzling poetry and placed it in its lively context. This shapely introduction to the life and work of André Breton is smart, concise, and exciting. I cannot imagine a better one."—Ron Padgett, poet and translator of The Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars "The Poets for the Millennium Series generally and André Breton's Selected Works specifically offers a workable image of an author and the work and the conjuncture, all at once. What comes across is a vivid presentation of Andre Breton not just as an art czar, a manifesto merchant, but a serious, haunted, inventive and strangely profound poet of the imagination, who invented or archeologized new ways of dreaming, but insisted on bearing witness with them in the actual world. Polizzotti does justice--as I think no other writer has--to the double burden of Breton's work."—Robert Kelly "A superbly chosen selection of Breton's poetry and prose, translated in every case with an elegant intelligence, and preceded by an unusually thorough introduction showing quite exactly how the poet's life informed each epoch of his work. It proves again the remarkable un-boringness of Breton, and how important he is now to our own poetry and to us.—Mary Ann Caws, author of The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter and editor of The Surrealist Painters and Poets

Author : Clifford Browder
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Surrealism
ISBN : 260003479X

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André Breton, Arbiter of Surrealism by Clifford Browder Pdf

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Pattern Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781848647732

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Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton Pdf

A collection of both of the Manifestoes of Surrealism written by Andre Breton in 1924 and 1929. The pocket book size to make the two manifestoes more accessible in print without being part of some collected works.

Author : Andrä Breton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803260725

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Amour Fou by Andrä Breton Pdf

Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now. "There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine," writes André Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. Mad Love is dedicated to defying "the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust." Celebrating breton's own love and lover, the book unveils the marvelous in everyday encounters and the hidden depths of ordinary things.

Author : J. H. Matthews
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217327

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André Breton by J. H. Matthews Pdf

Breton's stature is much greater than that of a number of contemporaries who have received, already, far more attention from the critics than he. It provides justification without excuse, especially when the commentator's purpose is to shed light on the intricacies of Breton's mind, the significance of his original work, or the impact of his ideas on twentieth-century culture. Hence the aim pursued in the present study may be stated without further preamble: To attempt to broaden understanding of the evolution of Andr Breton's thinking during a critical period in his life, the one which brought him to leadership of the surrealist movement in France. Evidently, the focus here is narrow, the goal being to give clearer definition to the intellectual state of a young man emerging from doubt--and so from self-doubt--into renewed confidence in his poetic calling.

Author : J. H. Matthews
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027217325

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André Breton by J. H. Matthews Pdf

Breton's stature is much greater than that of a number of contemporaries who have received, already, far more attention from the critics than he. It provides justification without excuse, especially when the commentator's purpose is to shed light on the intricacies of Breton's mind, the significance of his original work, or the impact of his ideas on twentieth-century culture. Hence the aim pursued in the present study may be stated without further preamble: To attempt to broaden understanding of the evolution of Andr Breton's thinking during a critical period in his life, the one which brought him to leadership of the surrealist movement in France. Evidently, the focus here is narrow, the goal being to give clearer definition to the intellectual state of a young man emerging from doubt--and so from self-doubt--into renewed confidence in his poetic calling.

Author : Andrä Breton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803212429

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The Lost Steps by Andrä Breton Pdf

The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andri Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European) intellectual life. They chronicle his tumultuous passage through the Dada movement, proclaim his explosive views on Modernism and its heroes, and herald the emergence of Surrealism itself. Along the way, we are given Breton's serious commentaries on his Modernist predecessors, Guillaume Apollinaire and Alfred Jarry, followed by his not-so-serious Dada manifestoes. Also included are portraits of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Breton's mysterious friend Jacques Vachi, as well as a crisis-by-crisis account of his dealing with Dada's leader, Tristan Tzara. Finally, Breton offers a first glimpse of Surrealism, the movement that was forever after identified with his name and that stands as a defining force in twentieth-century aesthetics. Mark Polizzotti, editorial director of David R. Godine, Publisher, is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andri Breton. He is also the translator of Jean Echenoz's Double Jeopardy (Nebraska 1994) and Cherokee (Nebraska 1994) and of Andri Breton's Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism. Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of French at Hunter College and at the City University of New York. Her most recent work is Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds. She is the translator of Andri Breton's Mad Love (Nebraska 1987) and Communicating Vessels (Nebraska 1990).

Author : Mark Polizzotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0979513782

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Revolution of the Mind by Mark Polizzotti Pdf

Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought, Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Brunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in detail. --Black Widow Press.

Author : Elza Adamowicz
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0729303438

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André Breton by Elza Adamowicz Pdf

Author : Jean Yves Collette
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : 0919349390

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The Death of André Breton by Jean Yves Collette Pdf

The Death of Andre Breton is fiction which reads like a detective novel. The suspense, unlike in the traditional plot, is offered to us here in an elliptical manner. The criss-crossing of different strata of writing makes this a story about confession, delirium, reality. Add to this the presence of what Jean Yves Collette has already introduced to us in his earlier books, eroticism/ {Claude Beausoleil, Le Devoir}

Author : Andrä Breton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803261357

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Communicating Vessels by Andrä Breton Pdf

What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896–1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, Les Vases communicants is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This English translation makes available "the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based." In Communicating Vessels Breton lays out the problems of everyday experience and of intellect. His involvement with political thought and action led him to write about the relations between nations and individuals in a mode that moves from the quotidian to the lyrical. His dreams triggered a curious correspondence with Freud, available only in this book. As Caws writes, "The whole history of surrealism is here, in these pages."

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Surrealism
ISBN : 1931243409

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Earthlight by André Breton Pdf

Best known as the mastermind of the Surrealist movement and as the author of the dream-logic fiction Nadja, Breton was also a brilliant poet. Written to friends and fellow Surrealists such as Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain and Max Ernst, the poems in this collection date from 1919-1936 spanning Breton's involvement with Dadaism and his founding and development of Surrealism. The range of poetic forms, from the early collage compositions to the Five Dreams' of Earthlight and the incantatory love poem 'Free Union', reveals Breton's compositional methods and styles.'

Author : Octave Mirbeau
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547027218

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Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau Pdf

The Torture Garden is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist, and playwright Octave Mirbeau. It was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. This book is an allegory on the hypocrisy of European civilization. It presents strong criticism of bloody French and British colonialism and a ferocious attack on what Mirbeau saw as the corrupt morality of bourgeois capitalist society and the state, which he believed were based on murder.