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Marcel Duchamp (Hardcover)
Marcel Duchamp; Robert L. Ebel; Edited by Jean-Jacques Lebel; Foreword by Harald Falckenberg; Introduction by Michaela Unterdoerfer; Text written by …
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Nadja (Paperback)
Andre Breton
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R464
R385
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"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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Magnetic Fields (Paperback)
Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault
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R298
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Nadja (Paperback)
Andre Breton; Translated by Richard Howard
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R247
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Nadja, André Breton’s most frankly autobiographical book, is the quintessential Surrealist romance. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, Nadja weaves a mysterious and compelling tapestry of daily life as seen through a uniquely magical perspective. The core of Nadja is Breton’s complex relationship with an unpredictable and unconventional young woman, ‘the extreme limit of the Surrealist aspiration’. Combining autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, Breton both spins one of the most unusual love stories in modern literature and illustrates the notion of ‘petrifying coincidence’, a cornerstone of Surrealist thought. First published in 1928, Nadja has long been regarded as the most important and influential work to emerge from Surrealism. This edition features Richard Howard’s masterful translation and a new introduction by Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti that details the circumstances of the book’s composition.
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Arcanum 17 (Paperback)
Andre Breton; Translated by Zack Rogow; Introduction by Anna Balakian
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R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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Nadja (1928) es una obra compleja en la que se encuentran todas las
claves del surrealismo en la etapa de su desarrollo inmediatamente
posterior a la publicacion del primero de sus "Manifiestos," es
decir, en pleno dinamismo conceptual. Muy densa en significados,
puede ser considerada una de las obras mas importantes de Breton y
del movimiento del que es, sin duda, su quintaesencia.
Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French
surrealism
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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Cardenas (Paperback)
Andre Breton, Edouard Glissant; Translated by John Ashbery
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R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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La Antologia del humor negro es un libro clave en la historia del
surrealismo. La seleccion de los textos y la presentacion de los
autores se debe a Andre Breton, la figura mas relevante del
movimiento surrealista. Entre los autores encontramos nombres tan
significativos, y a veces tan sorprendentes como Swift, Sade,
Carroll, Nietzsche, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Jarry, Roussel, Picabia,
Picasso, Kafka, Duchamp, Vache, Dali y otros. Creemos interesante
destacar un fragmento del prologo de Breton, que ilustra
magnificamente el espiritu del libro: Para participar en el torneo
negro del humor es indispensable haber salido victorioso de
numerosas eliminatorias. El humor negro time demasiadas fronteras:
la tonteria, la ironia esceptica, la broma sin gravedad... (la
enumeracion seria larga), pero, sobre todo, es el enemigo mortal
del sentimentalismo con aire perpetuamente acorralado -el eterno
sentimentalismo sobre fondo azul- y de una cierta fantasia de corto
vuelo, que se toma demasiado a menudo por poesia, persiste
vanamente en querer someter el espiritu a sus caducos artificios, y
no dispone ya de mucho tiempo para alzar sobre el sol, entre las
demas semillas de adormidera, su cabeza de grulla coronada.
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The Lost Steps (Paperback)
Andre Breton; Translated by Mark Polizzotti; Foreword by Mary Ann Caws; Introduction by Mark Polizzotti
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R488
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"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.
In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan
students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group,
and published a single issue of a journal called Legitime defense.
Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed
at the time. Yet it began a remarkable series of debates between
surrealism and Caribbean intellectuals that had a profound impact
on the struggle for cultural identity. In the next two decades
these exchanges greatly influenced the evolution of the concept of
negritude, initiated revolution in Haiti in 1946, and crucially
affected the development of surrealism itself. This fascinating
book presents a series of key texts-most of them never before
translated into English-which reveal the complexity of this
relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the
Caribbean and the most radical of the European avant-gardes.
Included are Rene Menil's subtle philosophical essays and the
fierce polemics of Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, appreciations of
surrealism by Haitian writers, lyrical evocations of the Caribbean
by Andre Breton and Andre Masson, and rich explorations of Haiti
and voodoo religion by Pierre Mabille and Michel Leiris.
"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 Andre 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
Andre 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 Andre
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
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Free Rein (Hardcover)
Andre Breton; Translated by Michel Parmentier, Jacqueline d'Amboise
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R1,628
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"Free Rein" is a gathering of seminal essays by Andre Breton, the
foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936
and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition
pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together
they display the full span of Breton's preoccupations, his abiding
faith in the early principles of surrealism, and the changing
orientations, in light of crucial events of those years, of the
surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.
Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s, Breton
repeatedly addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime (which
denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936). He argues for the
autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to
"revolutionary" aims exemplified by socialist realism. Other
articles reflect on aesthetic issues, cinema, music, and education
and provide detailed meditations on the literary, artistic, and
philosophical topics for which he is best known. "Free Rein" will
prove indispensable for students of Breton, surrealism, and modern
French and European culture.
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