André Breton Libri

"In the spring of 1919, two young men, André Breton and Philippe Soupault, one a student of law and the other of medicine, both in a state of moral shock after the carnage of World War I, embarked on an experiment in writing. Sick of the literary cultivation of an individual voice, sick of the "well-written," they wanted to unleash the power of the word as such, the better to create "a new morality" that would stand in place of "the prevailing morality, the source of all our trials and tribulations." They devised a plan. They would write over the course of a week; they would write for only so much time on each day of the week; they would write fast and then faster. When the week was over, the writing would be over, and they would not go back to it or clean it up in any way. Finally, the project must proceed in perfect secrecy. They must not tell anyone what they were up to. This was how The Magnetic Fields, the first sustained exercise in automatic writing as a form of literary composition, came to be. Charlotte Mandell's brilliant new translation reveals a key work of twentieth-century literature anew"-- Provided by publisher

Presents an overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography and graphic design with his innovative techniques. This collection of famous, lesser known, and unknown works illustrates Man Ray's singular visionary power.

Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealist movement. Includes a facsimile reproduction of the 1942 Surrealist Album by Andre Breton.

In die Kunst des späten 19. und des 20. Jahrhunderts sind zahlreiche Phänomene des Übersinnlichen und Okkulten eingegangen. Das Buch widmet mit mehr als 20 ausführlichen Künstlerbiografien und zahlreichen farbigen Illustrationen der Kunst von Menschen, die sich als „Medien“ sehen, durch die sich übersinnliche Kräfte äußern. Peter Gorsen berichtet über die historische Entwicklung dieses Genres vom 19. Jahrhundert über die Faszination der Surrealisten, der Art Brut bis zu aktuellen Beispielen der überaus aktiven Szene, die bis heute eine unglaubliche Faszination auf den Betrachter ausübt. Die Bandbreite reicht dabei von Zeichnungen und Gemälden über die berühmten Geisterfotografien (Albert Schrenck-Notzing) bis hin zu akustischen Phänomenen.

Presents a definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism. This title offers an anthology of the writers the author most admires. It discusses the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg and Duchamp, the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, the wry missives of Rimbaud, and the manic paranoia of Dali.

What Freud did for dreams, André 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."

The book emphasizes the enduring significance of Clair de terre throughout human history. To preserve its legacy, it has been modernized and republished in a clear and readable format, ensuring accessibility for current and future generations. This edition has been carefully edited and reformatted, distinguishing it from mere scans of the original work.

"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.

Výbor z Bretonových básní je vůbec první knižní prezentací Bretona-básníka v češtině. Tento obsáhlý výbor zahrnuje básně ze slavných sbírek dvacátých a třicátých let Zemský svit, Revolver s bílými vlasy a Vzduch země, básnická pásma z let čtyřicátých, texty vydané až po autorově smrti a odhalující dosud opomíjené aspekty básníkova psaní a vidění, ale rovněž i texty juvenilní – mallarméovské, rimbaudovské nebo dadaistické. Knihu doprovází rozsáhlý poznámkový aparát a studie o autorovi, vše z pera překladatele Petra Krále.