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1	Nadja more books like this by Andre Breton add to wishlist 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 the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Manifestoes of Surrealism more books like this by Andre Breton, Andrc Breton, Richard Seaver (Translator) add to wishlist Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism see all copies from $4.25! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Mirror of the Marvelous: The Classic Surrealist Work on Myth more books like this by Pierre Mabille, Professor Jody Gladding (Translator), Andre Breton (Preface by) add to wishlist For Mabille, the marvelous is a state of extreme poetic tension in which inner and outer realities are joined. Anais Nin suggested this book as a source of inspiration, far ahead of its time, for would-be authors seeking to break from the realist literary mold. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
4	Andre Breton: Selections more books like this by Andre Breton, Andra1/2 Breton, Mark Polizzotti (Introduction by) add to wishlist Founder of the Surrealist movement, Andre Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the 20th century's most influential poets. This inaugural volume in the "Poets for the Millennium" series offers a comprehensive selection of his poetry along with some of his major prose writings. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $12.11! \| first editions \| SVS
5	What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings more books like this by Andre Breton, Franklin Rosemont (Editor) add to wishlist Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealist movement. Includes a facsimile reproduction of the 1942 Surrealist Album by Andre Breton. see all copies from $5.40! new only from $81.89! \| first editions
6	Mad Love-Pa more books like this by Andre Breton, Professor Mary Ann Caws (Translator) add to wishlist A lyrical illustrated autobiographical novel about a poet, lover, and madman, by the celebrated French surrealist writer. see all copies from $5.05! new only from $12.52!
7	Communicating Vessels more books like this by Andre Breton, Geoffrey T Harris (Translator), Mary Ann Caws (Introduction by) add to wishlist An account of artists and thinkers in France at mid-century, by one of France's foremost surrealists. see all copies from $7.14! new only from $15.94! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Les Manifestes Du Surrealisme more books like this by Andre Breton, Andrbe Breton add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95! new only from $20.12! \| first editions
9	The Immaculate Conception by Andre Breton, Jon Graham (Translator), Paul Eluard add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00!
10	Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism more books like this by Andre Breton add to wishlist The closest Andre Breton has ever come to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $66.93! \| first editions
11	Arcanum 17: With Apertures more books like this by Andre Breton, Zack Rogow (Translator), Anna Balakian (Introduction by) add to wishlist Considered radical at the time, today Breton's ideas seem almost prescient, yet breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. AndrA(c) Breton wrote "Arcanum 17" during a trip to the GaspA(c) Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
12 view cover	Free Rein : La Cle Des Champs more books like this by Andre Breton, Michel Parmentier (Translator), Jacqueline D'Amboise (Translator) add to wishlist "Free Rein" is a gathering of seminal essays by Andre Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton's preoccupations, his abiding faith in the ... see all copies from $2.40! new only from $21.15! \| first editions
13	L' Amour Fou by Andre Breton, Andrbe Breton add to wishlist see all copies from $2.42! new only from $7.95!
14 view cover	The Lost Steps more books like this by Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (Translator), Professor Mary Ann Caws (Foreword by) add to wishlist Breton's first collection of critical essays, written between 1917 and 1923, chronicle his involvement in Dadaism, modernism, and surrealism. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $34.34!
15	Anthologie de L'Humour Noir more books like this by Andre Breton add to wishlist see all copies from $8.95! new only from $8.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Break of Day more books like this by Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (Translator), Professor Mary Ann Caws (Translator) add to wishlist This book by Surrealism's front man collects essays written between 1924 and 1933, when the movement was at its peak. The essays advocate psychological and artistic experimentation, condemn every sort of establishment, and honor writers who speak out for revolution. see all copies from $7.98! new only from $21.34! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology more books like this by Andre Breton, Jean-Pierre Cauvin (Translator), Professor Mary Ann Caws (Translator) add to wishlist Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This title brings together comprehensive selection of poems by Breton. It includes 73 poems representing various styles and stages of the writer's career. see all copies from $9.39! new only from $9.88! \| first editions \| SVS
18	The Surrealists Look at Art more books like this by Paul Eluard (Editor), Andre Breton (Editor), Michael Palmer (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
19 view cover	Andre Breton: Surrealism and Painting more books like this by Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (Introduction by) add to wishlist Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the suject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Andre Breton's seminal ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $22.22! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Anthology of Black Humor more books like this by Andra(c) Breton, Andre Breton (Editor), Mark Polizzotti (Translator) add to wishlist An anthology of Breton's favorite examples of black humor--a concept he considered seminal to a proper understanding of Surrealism and which he defined as a "superior revolt of the mind." The 45 authors included range from the classic paragons of the genre such as Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, and Baudelaire, to the more obscure authors such as ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $31.40! \| first editions
21	Clair de Terre by Andre Breton, Andrbe Breton add to wishlist see all copies from $3.42! new only from $13.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Matta: Surrealism and Beyond more books like this by Curtis L Carter, Sabine Eckmann, Andre Breton add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Anthology of Black Humour by Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (Translator) add to wishlist This is Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism. In his provocative anthology of the writers he most admires, Breton discusses the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg and Duchamp, the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, the wry missives of Rimbaud, the manic paranoia of Dali, the ... see all copies from $13.17! new only from $13.17!
24 view cover	Earthlight more books like this by Andre Breton, Andrc) Breton, Bill Zavatsky (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.37! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Automatic Message: The Magnetic Fields and the Immaculate Conception more books like this by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault add to wishlist Two classics of Surrealist automatic writing--THE MAGNETIC FIELDS (1919), by Breton and Soupault, and THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (1930), by Breton and Eluard--now combined for the first time into one volume, with additional material which gives an overview of different forms of automatism. 60 illustrations. see all copies from $31.34! new only from $31.34!

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