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==Works==
 
==Works==
 
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===Essays===
 
* ''Manifeste du surréalisme. Poisson soluble'', Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, Oct 1924, 190 pp. [http://pictures.abebooks.com/FARRE/1312616055.jpg]
 
* ''Manifeste du surréalisme. Poisson soluble'', Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, Oct 1924, 190 pp. [http://pictures.abebooks.com/FARRE/1312616055.jpg]
 
** [http://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Breton_Andre_Manifestoes_of_Surrealism.pdf#page=6 "Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)"] & [http://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Breton_Andre_Manifestoes_of_Surrealism.pdf#page=30 "Soluble Fish (1924)"], in Breton ''Manifestoes of Surrealism'', 1969, pp 1-47 & 49-109. {{en}}
 
** [http://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Breton_Andre_Manifestoes_of_Surrealism.pdf#page=6 "Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)"] & [http://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Breton_Andre_Manifestoes_of_Surrealism.pdf#page=30 "Soluble Fish (1924)"], in Breton ''Manifestoes of Surrealism'', 1969, pp 1-47 & 49-109. {{en}}
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* "Le Surréalisme et la peinture", 4 parts in ''La Révolution surréaliste'': [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5845096g/f28.image Part 1], No. 4, pp 26-30, Jul 1925; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58451087/f31.image Part 2], No. 6, pp 30-32, Mar 1926; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5845116s/f5.image Part 3], No. 7, pp 3-6, Jun 1926; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5845141v/f40.image Part 4], No. 9-10, pp 36-43, Oct 1927.
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** "Surrealism and Painting", trans. David Gascoyne, in Breton, ''What is Surrealism?'', 1936, pp 9-24. {{en}}
  
 
* "Lettre aux voyantes", 1929.
 
* "Lettre aux voyantes", 1929.
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* "Du surréalisme en ses œuvres vives", 1954.
 
* "Du surréalisme en ses œuvres vives", 1954.
  
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* {{a|Breton1928}} [[Media:Andre_Breton_Nadja_1998.pdf|''Nadja'']], 1928; 1963; 1964; Gallimard, 1998.
 
* {{a|Breton1928}} [[Media:Andre_Breton_Nadja_1998.pdf|''Nadja'']], 1928; 1963; 1964; Gallimard, 1998.
 
** [[Media:Breton_Andre_Nadja_1960_EN.pdf|''Nadja'']], trans. Richard Howard, New York: Grove Press, 1960. {{en}}
 
** [[Media:Breton_Andre_Nadja_1960_EN.pdf|''Nadja'']], trans. Richard Howard, New York: Grove Press, 1960. {{en}}
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* ''L'Amour fou'', Paris: Gallimard, 1937.
 
* ''L'Amour fou'', Paris: Gallimard, 1937.
  
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=== Poetry===
 
* ''Fata morgana'', 1939.
 
* ''Fata morgana'', 1939.
  
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=== Selected works ===
 
* ''Manifestes du surréalisme. Éditions complètes'', Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972.  
 
* ''Manifestes du surréalisme. Éditions complètes'', Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972.  
 
** ''[[Media:Breton_Andre_Manifestoes_of_Surrealism.pdf|Manifestoes of Surrealism]]'', trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. {{en}}
 
** ''[[Media:Breton_Andre_Manifestoes_of_Surrealism.pdf|Manifestoes of Surrealism]]'', trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. {{en}}
 
* ''What is Surrealism: Selected Writings'', Pathfinder Press, 1978. {{en}}
 
* ''What is Surrealism: Selected Writings'', Pathfinder Press, 1978. {{en}}
  
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===Collected works ===
 
* ''Les œuvres complètes d’André Breton'', Paris: Gallimard, 1988.
 
* ''Les œuvres complètes d’André Breton'', Paris: Gallimard, 1988.
  

Revision as of 01:14, 14 March 2016


André Breton, c1929.
Born February 19, 1896(1896-02-19)
Tinchebray, France
Died September 28, 1966(1966-09-28) (aged 70)
Paris, France

André Breton (1896–1966) was a French writer and poet. He is best known as the founder of Surrealism, with Paul Éluard, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

In 1924 he published his Manifeste du surréalisme, defining surrealism as "SURREALISM, noun, masc., Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations." [1].

Works

(in French unless noted)

Essays

  • "Le Surréalisme et la peinture", 4 parts in La Révolution surréaliste: Part 1, No. 4, pp 26-30, Jul 1925; Part 2, No. 6, pp 30-32, Mar 1926; Part 3, No. 7, pp 3-6, Jun 1926; Part 4, No. 9-10, pp 36-43, Oct 1927.
    • "Surrealism and Painting", trans. David Gascoyne, in Breton, What is Surrealism?, 1936, pp 9-24. (English)
  • "Lettre aux voyantes", 1929.
  • Qu'est-ce que le surréalisme ?, Brussels: R. Henriquez, 1934, 29 pp.
    • What is Surrealism? Selected Writings, ed. & intro. Franklin Rosemont, trans. David Gascoyne, London: Faber & Fabe, 1936, 90 pp. (English)
    • Co je surrealismus? Tři přednásky, trans. & afterw. Vítězslav Nezval, Brno: J. Jicha, 1937, 157 pp. (Czech)
  • "Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme", 1938.
  • "Du surréalisme en ses œuvres vives", 1954.

Fiction

  • Nadja, 1928; 1963; 1964; Gallimard, 1998.
    • Nadja, trans. Richard Howard, New York: Grove Press, 1960. (English)
  • Les Vases communicants, 1932.
  • L'Amour fou, Paris: Gallimard, 1937.

Poetry

  • Fata morgana, 1939.

Selected works

  • Manifestes du surréalisme. Éditions complètes, Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972.
  • What is Surrealism: Selected Writings, Pathfinder Press, 1978. (English)

Collected works

  • Les œuvres complètes d’André Breton, Paris: Gallimard, 1988.

Correspondence

  • Lettres à Aube. 1938-1966, ed. Jean-Michel Goutier, Paris: Gallimard, 2009.

Literature

  • Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism and the Literary Imagination: A Study of Breton and Bachelard, 1966. (in English)
  • Philippe Lavergne, André Breton et le mythe, José Corti, 1985.
  • Gérard Legrand, André Breton en son temps, Le Soleil Noir, 1976.
  • Paule Plouvier, Poétique de l'amour chez André Breton, José Corti, 1983.
  • Emmanuel Rubio, Les Philosophies d'André Breton (1924-1941), L'Âge d'Homme, 2009.

Links

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