"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.
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