André Breton

André Breton, c1929.
Born	February 19, 1896(1896-02-19) Tinchebray, France
Died	July 28, 1966(1966-07-28) (aged 70) Paris

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.

"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." (From Le Manifeste du Surréalisme [1])

Literature

Essays

• Manifeste du surréalisme, 1924.
• Lettre aux voyantes, 1929.
• Second manifeste du Surréalisme, 1930.
• Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme, 1938.
• Du surréalisme en ses œuvres vives, 1954.

Poetry

• Nadja, 1928; 1963; 1964; Gallimard, 1998.
• L'Amour fou, 1937.
• Fata morgana, 1940.

Collected works and correspondence

• Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.
• Les œuvres complètes d’André Breton, Paris: Gallimard, 1988.
• Lettres à Aube. 1938-1966, ed. Jean-Michel Goutier, Paris: Gallimard, 2009.

On Breton

• Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism and the Literary Imagination: A Study of Breton and Bachelard, 1966.
• 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.

External links

• http://dantebea.com/category/collages-photomontages-2/andre-breton-collages-photomontages/
• Breton at French Wikipedia