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What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. This English translation makes available 'the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based.

What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, "Les Vases communicants" is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This English translation makes available "the theories upon which the whole edifice of surreali...

A collection of critical and polemical essays. It captures the first decade of the surrealist movement. It features an essay composed in 1924 that examines key elements of surrealism. It contains essays including 'Refusal to Inter', 'Legitimate Defense, ' and 'Surrealism and the Treatment of Mental Illness.

Mad Love" has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now. "There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine, " writes Andre Breton, leader ...