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Break of Day

Break of Day

Polizzotti, Mark
Caws, Mary Ann
Breton, André

Paperback

Series: French Modernist Library

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0803220847
ISBN13: 9780803220843
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Breton's second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist movement. The collection opens with an essay composed in 1924 that examines key elements of surrealism and concludes with Breton's harsh revaluation in 1933 of automatic writing. Among the other essays in the volume are Burial Denied and In Self-Defense, two pieces that, in translator Mark Polizzotti's words, mark surrealism's conscious break from the mainstream and the beginning of its attempts to work alongside the French Communist Party. Also included are Psychiatry Standing before Surrealism, which addresses Breton's complex, ambivalent views on mental illness and the emerging psychiatric establishment; Introduction to Achim von Arnim's Strange Tales, which reveals surrealism's debt to such precursors as the German romantics and delineates a surrealistic aesthetic of the macabre; and Picasso in His Element, in which Breton demonstrates his formidable talents as a critic of the visual arts.

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