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an anthology of ideas

"The surrealism reader" was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2015 - Chicago and the language of the book is English.


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"The surrealism reader" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- The annihilation of self-identity
  • 2- Introduction
  • 3- Being and its reflections / Jacques Hérold
  • 4- The haunting / André Breton
  • 5- Preface in praise of popular prejudices / Pierre Mabille
  • 6- The noble mannequin seeks and finds her skin / René Crevel
  • 7- The light, the shadow and the prey / Paul Nougé
  • 8- Mirrors / Pierre Mabille
  • 9- The "caput mortuum" or the alchemist's wife / Michae Leiris
  • 10- Non-scientific treatise on the fourth dimension / Marcel Marien
  • 11- What is a woman? / Leonora Carrington
  • 12- Leave everything / Annie Le Brun
  • 13- Memory of the last / Vincent Bounoure
  • 14- You always cherish your failures, machine-man / Bernard Caburet
  • 15- The challenge of otherness
  • 16- Introduction
  • 17- Pamphlet against Jerusalem / Robert Desnos
  • 18- The universal bases of culture / Antonin Artaud
  • 19- Don't clutter up the colonies (fragments); Approaching the enchanted castle / Jacques Viot
  • 20- The patriotism of the unconscious / René Crevel
  • 21- Ruins: ruine de ruines / Benjamin Péret
  • 22- The nocturnal island / The Bucharest Surrealist Group
  • 23- The friendship of man and beast / Georges Bataille
  • 24- Cat=clover / Jacqueline Sénard-Duprey
  • 25- Embers in Ceridwen's cauldron / André Breton
  • 26- Light of life / Benjamin Péret
  • 27- The twilight of the wheeler-dealers / Robert Benayoun
  • 28- The passage from poetry to philosophy / René Ménil
  • 29- A creolism sewn with white thread / Annie Le Brun
  • 30- The exit from Egypt / René Alleau
  • 31- The moral imperative
  • 32- Introduction
  • 33- It's up to you / Louis Aragon
  • 34- Note on freedom / Louis Aragon
  • 35- Humour as a moral attitude / Marko Ristić
  • 36- Love of revolution in our time / Nicolas Calas
  • 37- Liberty versus liberation / André Breton
  • 38- Reflections on the executioner and the victim / Georges Bataille
  • 39- Is surrealism a philosophy? / Gérard Legrand
  • 40- Freedom as nostalgia and as project / Georges Henein
  • 41- The hidden being / Elisabeth Lenk
  • 42- Festival mood / Philippe Audoin
  • 43- Paradise / PIerre Mabille
  • 44- The tasks of art and poetry
  • 45- Introduction
  • 46- Notes on poetry / André Breton and Paul Éluard
  • 47- The social anarchy of art / Antonin Artaud
  • 48- The rotting donkey / Salvador Dalí
  • 49- Specification of poetry / Roger Caillois
  • 50- Essay on the situation of poetry / Tristan Tzara
  • 51- Inviolable images / Paul Nougé
  • 52- Systematisation and determination / Roger Caillois
  • 53- The subversive function of poetry / Georges Henein
  • 54- On surrealist semiology / Karel Teige
  • 55- The sense of the world / René Magritte
  • 56- Automatic perspective / Adrien Dax
  • 57- Notes on poetry / Paul Nougé
  • 58- Surrealism and the savage heart / Vincent Bounoure
  • 59- Magic art and revolution / Vincent Bounoure and Vratislav Effenberger
  • 60- On the utilitarian conception of language / Vratislav Effenberger.

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