Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton
Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton
$29.95
BRETON. Polizzotti, Mark
Pap. 2008
Book ID: 79773
The first biography in English of the iconoclastic poet and founder of Surrealism. The book is expertly researched and an informed history of one of the defining cultural movements of this century. Beginning with a narrative of his subject's working-class youth in northern France, Polizzotti goes on to relate the concatenation of events and influences (most notably World War I and the literary supernovas Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire) that conspired to shape Breton's uniquely opinionated personality.
666 pp., 49 b&w illus.