Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André
Breton’s second collection of critical and polemical essays,
following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred
pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist
movement. The collection opens with an essay composed in 1924 that
examines key elements of surrealism and concludes with Breton’s
harsh revaluation in 1933 of automatic writing. Among the
other essays in the volume are “Burial Denied” and “In
Self-Defense,” two pieces that, in translator Mark Polizzotti’s
words, “mark surrealism’s conscious break from the mainstream
and the beginning of its attempts to work alongside the French
Communist Party.” Also included are “Psychiatry Standing before
Surrealism,” which addresses Breton’s complex, ambivalent views
on mental illness and the emerging psychiatric establishment;
“Introduction to Achim von Arnim's Strange Tales,” which
reveals surrealism’s debt to such precursors as the German
romantics and delineates a surrealistic aesthetic of the macabre;
and “Picasso in His Element,” in which Breton demonstrates his
formidable talents as a critic of the visual arts.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
French Modernist Library |
| Release date: |
December 2008 |
| Firstpublished: |
December 2008 |
| Authors: |
André Breton
|
| Translators: |
Mark Polizzotti
• Mary Ann Caws
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
148 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-2084-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8032-2084-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780803220843 |
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