Andre Breton: Selections Volume 1

by André Breton

Book Overview

Founder of the Surrealist movement, André Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings. The translations, a number of which are published here for the first time, are by some of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520239547
• ISBN13: 9780520239548
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Sheer Surreal Madness

wow! this is a superb collection of poetry and prose by the leader of the surrealist movement,everyones favorite Parisian(aside from Apollinaire)Andre Breton.this collection displays some simplly beautiful and hallucinatory writing.i think my favorite(which is hard to decide)is "choose life",a wonderful piece that cant help but inpire subjectivity and adveture.the intro is quite long but very well writen and extremely useful if you dont know that much about Breton and the surrealists.get it today! it kicks ass!