André Breton
 André Breton, c1929. | |
| Born |
February 19, 1896 Tinchebray, France |
|---|---|
| Died |
July 28, 1966 (aged 70) Paris |
André Breton (1896 – 1966) was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism, with Paul Eluard, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. His writings include the first Manifeste du surréalisme (1924).
"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 (Galimard), 1998
- L'Amour fou, 1937
- Fata morgana, 1940
- Books
- Les œuvres complètes d’André Breton (Collected works), Gallimard , Paris (sous la direction de Marguerite Bonnet et Étienne-Alain Hubert), 1988
- Correspondance (édité par Jean-Michel Goutier), 1938-1966, Gallimard, Paris
- About 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
