Andre Breton

Nadja is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, Nadja weaves a mysterious and compelling tapestry of daily life as seen through a magical perspective. Combining autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, Breton spins one of the...

An indispensable 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. This edition includes the original French text. In the spring of 1919, two young men, Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault, both in a state of shock after World War I, embarked on...