"The Lost Steps" ("Les Pas perdus") is Andre 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 Vache, 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.
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