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André Breton




André Breton

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born
February 19, 1896

died
September 28, 1966

gender
male

place of birth
Tinchebray, Orne, France

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction


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A French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism.




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avg rating: 3.89 | 1,689 ratings | 140 reviews | 113 distinct works | 7 fans
Nadja Nadja
by André Breton
avg rating 3.71 — 684 ratings — published 1928
15 editions
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Manifestoes of Surrealism Manifestoes of Surrealism
by André Breton
avg rating 3.98 — 213 ratings — published 1969
6 editions
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Mad Love Mad Love
by André Breton
avg rating 4.00 — 139 ratings — published 1967
7 editions
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Anthology of Black Humor Anthology of Black Humor
by André Breton
avg rating 4.21 — 53 ratings — published 1977
4 editions
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The Automatic Message, the Mag... The Automatic Message, the Magnetic Fields, the Immaculate Conception
by André Breton, Paul Eluard
avg rating 4.02 — 48 ratings — published 1997
2 editions
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Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilin... Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
by André Breton
avg rating 4.09 — 43 ratings — published 1982
2 editions
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André Breton: Surrealism and... André Breton: Surrealism and Painting
by André Breton
avg rating 4.23 — 39 ratings — published 2002
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Earthlight Earthlight
by André Breton
avg rating 4.60 — 35 ratings — published 1993
3 editions
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Communicating Vessels Communicating Vessels
by André Breton
avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 1990
2 editions
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My Heart Through Which Her Hea... My Heart Through Which Her Heart Has Passed
by André Breton
avg rating 4.74 — 23 ratings — published 2001
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"My wife with the hair of a wood fire
With the thoughts of heat lightning
With the waist of an hourglass
With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger
My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude
With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth
With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass
My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host
With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes
With the tongue of an unbelievable stone
My wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writing
With brows of the edge of a swallow's nest
My wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roof
And of steam on the panes
My wife with shoulders of champagne
And of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the ice
My wife with wrists of matches
My wife with fingers of luck and ace of hearts
With fingers of mown hay
My wife with armpits of marten and of beechnut
And of Midsummer Night
Of privet and of an angelfish nest
With arms of seafoam and of riverlocks
And of a mingling of the wheat and the mill
My wife with legs of flares
With the movements of clockwork and despair
My wife with calves of eldertree pith
My wife with feet of initials
With feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinking
My wife with a neck of unpearled barley
My wife with a throat of the valley of gold
Of a tryst in the very bed of the torrent
With breasts of night
My wife with breasts of a marine molehill
My wife with breasts of the ruby's crucible
With breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dew
My wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of days
With the belly of a gigantic claw
My wife with the back of a bird fleeing vertically
With a back of quicksilver
With a back of light
With a nape of rolled stone and wet chalk
And of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinking
My wife with hips of a skiff
With hips of a chandelier and of arrow-feathers
And of shafts of white peacock plumes
Of an insensible pendulum
My wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestos
My wife with buttocks of swans' backs
My wife with buttocks of spring
With the sex of an iris
My wife with the sex of a mining-placer and of a platypus
My wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeat
My wife with a sex of mirror
My wife with eyes full of tears
With eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needle
My wife with savanna eyes
My wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prison
My wife with eyes of wood always under the axe
My wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire
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André Breton (Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology)
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"Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all."
André Breton (Nadja)
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"Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose."
André Breton (Anthology of Black Humor)
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