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Communicating Vessels (Paperback, New Ed): Andre Breton

Communicating Vessels (Paperback, New Ed)

Andre Breton; Translated by Mary Ann Caws, Geoffrey T. Harris; Introduction by Mary Ann Caws

Series: French Modernist Library

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What Freud did for dreams, Andre 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."

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Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: French Modernist Library
Release date: March 1997
First published: March 1997
Authors: Andre Breton
Translators: Mary Ann Caws • Geoffrey T. Harris
Introduction by: Mary Ann Caws
Dimensions: 229 x 102 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 161
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6135-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
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LSN: 0-8032-6135-7
Barcode: 9780803261358

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