Free Rein = LA Cle Des Champs - Couverture rigide

Breton, André

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803212410 ISBN 13 : 9780803212411

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1996

Synopsis

Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton's preoccupations, his abiding faith in the early principles of surrealism, and the changing orientations, in light of crucial events of those years, of the surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.

Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s, Breton repeatedly addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime (which denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936). He argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to "revolutionary" aims exemplified by socialist realism. Other articles reflect on aesthetic issues, cinema, music, and education and provide detailed meditations on the literary, artistic, and philosophical topics for which he is best known. Free Rein will prove indispensable for students of Breton, surrealism, and modern French and European culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michel Parmentier is a professor of French at Bishop's University, Québec. He is the author of Mise au point and Regards contemporains: Textes d'actualité québécoise. He is coauthor with Jacqueline d'Amboise of Second Regards, Récits récents, and Nouvelles nouvelles: Fictions du Québec contemporain. Jacqueline d'Amboise is an independent poet and translator. She is the author of Mother Myths, a book of poems.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803212410
• ISBN 13: 9780803212411
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 293
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible