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This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers-Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton's selections are o...

Discusses the works of Swift, Lichtenberg, Duchamp, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Rimbaud, Dali, Alfred Jarry and Apollinaire.

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.

Mark Polizzotti, editorial director of David R. Godine, Publisher, is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andr¿reton. He is also the translator of Jean Echenoz¿s Double Jeopardy (Nebraska 1994) and Cherokee (Nebraska 1994) and of Andr¿reton¿s Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism. Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of French at Hunter College and at the City University of New York. Her most recent work is Robert Mo...