Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute [Paperback]

Anna Balakian (Author)

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Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; New edition edition (Jan 15 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226035603
ISBN-13: 978-0226035604
Product Dimensions: 2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 322 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #661,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Surrealism
- #47 in Books > Arts & Photography > Schools, Periods & Styles > Surrealism
- #67 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > French

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First published in 1959, Surrealism remains the most readable introduction to the French surrealist poets Apollinaire, Breton, Aragon, Eluard, and Reverdy. Providing a much-needed overview of the movement, Balakian places the surrealists in the context of early twentieth-century Paris and describes their reactions to symbolist poetry, World War I, and developments in science and industry, psychology, philosophy, and painting. Her coherent history of the movement is enhanced by her firsthand knowledge of the intellectual climate in which some of these poets worked and her interviews with Reverdy and Breton. In a new introduction, Balakian discusses the influence of surrealism on contemporary poetry.

This volume includes photographs of the poets and reproductions of paintings by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy, and others.

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The multifarious ramifications of the literary expression called "symbolism" have served as a trompe l'oeil for almost a century. Read the first page

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