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The Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields

Breton, Andre
Soupault, Philippe
Mandell, Charlotte

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ISBN10: 1681374609
ISBN13: 9781681374604
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 13 2020
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 4.40 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
An indispensible classic of French poetry, this is a new translation of Breton and Soupault's experiment with automatic writing, and also the first known work of literary surrealism.

In the spring of 1919, two young men, André Breton and Philippe Soupault, both in a state of shock after World War I, embarked on an experiment. Sick of the literary cultivation of voice, sick of the well-written, they wanted to unleash the power of the word and to create a new morality to replace the prevailing morality, the source of all our trials and tribulations. They had a plan. They would write for a week on every day of the week and they would write fast, as fast as possible, in complete secrecy. When the week was over, the writing would be done. No touching up.

This was how The Magnetic Fields, the first sustained exercise in automatic writing, came to be. Charlotte Mandell's brilliant new translation reveals a key work of twentieth-century literature.

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.

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