20th century french literature
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fata morgana
french poems
french poetry
juxtaposition
manifest of surrealism
pure psychic automatism
second manifesto of surrealism
soluble fish
super reality
surrealism
surrealist movement
the automatic message
the disdainful confession
the magnetic fields
translated poems
translated poetry
unconscious
Product details
- ISBN 9780520239548
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Founder of the Surrealist movement, Andre 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, Andre 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 most notable poets in our language, including David Antin, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Michael Benedikt, Robert Duncan, David Gascoyne, and Charles Simic. This volume also includes an extensive biographical and thematic introduction by Mark Polizzotti, which sets the poems in the context of Breton's life and overall career.
Mark Polizzotti is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton (1995), Lautreamont Nomad (1994), The New Life: Poems (1998), and S: a novel (1997). He has translated the work of Andre Breton, Rene Daumal, Jean Echenoz, and Marguerite Duras, among others.
