Manifestoes of Surrealism

By Andre Breton
Translated by Richard Seaver & Helen Lane

Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature
Paperback : 9780472061822, 320 pages, 5.375 x 8, December 1969
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.7558
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Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism

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CONTENTS
Preface for a Reprint of the Manifesto (1929) 
Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) 
Soluble Fish (1924) 
Preface for the New Edition of the Second Manifesto (1946) 
Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930) 
A Letter to Seers (1925) 
Political Position of Surrealism (extracts) 
Preface (1935) 
Political Position of loday's Art (1935) 
Speech to the Congress of Writers (1935) 
On the lime When the Surrealists Were Right (1935) 
Surrealist Situation of the Object (1935) 
Prolegomena to a Third Surrealist Manifesto or Not (1942) 
On Surrealism In Its Living Works (1953) 

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Table of Contents:

  • Preface for a reprint of the manifesto (1929)
  • Manifesto of surrealism (1924)
  • Soluble fish (1924)
  • Preface for the new edition of the second manifesto (1946)
  • Second manifesto of surrealism (1930)
  • A letter to seers (1925)
  • Political position of surrealism (extracts)
  • Prolegomena to a third surrealist manifesto or not (1942)
  • On surrealism in its living works (1953).

Description

Manifestoes of Surrealism is an essential text by André Breton, a French writer and poet, and co-founder of the Surrealist movement. This volume includes Breton’s 1924 surrealist manifesto, his second manifesto from 1930, and extracts from other letters and works. Drawing on Freudian psychoanalysis, dream logic, and automatic writing, Breton rejects rationalism and embraces the unconscious as a path to artistic and social liberation. 

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