Soluble Fish

Soluble Fish - Paperback

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Soluble Fish - Paperback

Soluble Fish - Paperback

by Andre Breton
$17.28
$17.28

Book Overview

Soluble Fish (1924) by André Breton is a sophisticated poetic novel which is one of the first works of Surrealism, and with the Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), began the new literary movement which followed Paris Dada in the decade of the 1920s. This is the first translation of this important surrealist work since 1969. R J Dent has finally done the almost impossible and rendered Breton's elusive and complex prose into a fluid English that is actually a pleasure to read. Here we see a Breton very different from the dour caricature usually presented to English speaking readers. The text here is playful, warm and engaging.
ISBN9781446751954
Author Andre Breton
PublisherLulu.com
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages106
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Soluble Fish

Soluble Fish - Paperback

Soluble Fish - Paperback

By Andre Breton

About Andre Breton

André Breton (1896-1966), the son of a Norman policeman and a seamstress, studied medicine in Paris and was drafted to serve in World War I in 1915. While working on a neurological ward, he met Jacques Vaché, a devotee of Alfred Jarry, and Vaché's rebellious spirit and suicide at the age of twenty-three would powerfully shape Breton's sensibility. Thanks to the auspices of Paul Valéry, Breton worked as an assistant to Marcel Proust, and in 1919, along with Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon, he founded the journal Littérature. The Magnetic Fields, the first book of automatic writing (published by NYRB Poets), appeared in 1920, and in 1924, having broken with Tristan Tzara and the Dadaists, Breton issued the Manifesto of Surrealism. Among his other major works are Anthology of Black Humor, Mad Love, and Surrealism and Painting.

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