These documents lay the foundation for the Surrealist Movement, while revealing the personal attitudes and concerns of their author. Note: Breton's manifestoes from 19, along with a handful of other writings, including Soluble Fish (1924), A Letter to Seers (1925), extracts from The Political Position of Surrealism (1935), and a prelude to a Third Surrealist Manifesto (1942). Note: Contains the collections C'est les bottes de sept lieues cette phrase 'Je me vois' (1926), A la mystérieuse (1926) and Les ténèbris (1927), as well as a large selection of other poems spanning Desnos's life.Ĭurrently out of print, but worth the extra search.ġ928 story, with illustrations by Tanguy. Six volumes were written over the author's lifetime, though only the first is currently available in English. Note: Albert-Birot's masterpiece foreshadowed the type of automatic writing explored by Surrealists during the 1920s. Its opening section, The Passage de L'Opéra, describes scenes in hotel rooms, walkways and shop windows in a manner that truly captures the marvelous of everyday life. Note: Aragon's novel, first published in 1926, is a classic of Surrealist literature. Umbilical Limbo and Nerve Scales, all among his most powerful works. Story Illegible, the Son of a Flute, among otherĬontains Artaud's early collections Letters to Jacques Rivière, Note: Contains Buñuel's wonderful surrealist Student at Columbia University in New York, 1929-1930. Greatest collection of surrealist poetry, written while Lorca was a Number of different publishers over the years, including Dover, Kessinger Note: Dalí's outrageous autobiography has been available through a The same translation by Rachel Stella is also available through University of Of Battle, as well as prose, poetry, letters & polemical Of Surrealist literature, written in 1927.įields (1919) by Breton and Soupault and The ImmaculateĬontains Péret's surrealist novel Death to the Pigs and the Field Note: Arguably one of the great masterpieces
Surréalisme Au Service De La Révolution, originally published during the The same company also offers a collection of the 6 issues of La Révolution Surréaliste, published in Paris between 1924 andġ929. To anyone interested in Surrealism, featuring copies of all 12 issues of Part Three: Collections of Surrealist Writingīook is not in English. Sites, plus a few harder to find gems that are certainly worth the extra search. Here is an extensive list of publications in English, most of whichĬan be found on and other Internet book There are numerous books that feature Surrealist Writing. Surrealism-Plays is a site devoted to the history and creative works of the Surrealist Movement, as well as the anti-tradition of avant-garde theatre.
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