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  <title><![CDATA[Mad Love (French Modernist Library)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mad Love&lt;/i&gt; 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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine,&quot; writes Andr&#233; Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. &lt;i&gt;Mad Love&lt;/i&gt; is dedicated to defying &quot;the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust.&quot; Celebrating breton's own love and lover, the book unveils the marvelous in everyday encounters and the hidden depths of ordinary things.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1967</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[André Breton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Infuriatingly difficult to read -- I was rocking seven minutes a page for most of this baby. Brilliant at times, beautifully written, fantastic imagery. I'm not a big a fan of surrealism, though, possibly because I'm not a big fan of LSD, which may be the key ingredient to understanding this sort of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77170558">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 17:40:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 29 04:09:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful book and a prime example of surrealist literature. What I mean is that you will read 100 pages and pick out what could be understood in 10. This is not a bad thing, but also not for most people. Definitely not an easy read in the sense of flow.<br/><br/>The great thing about th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44575032">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 12 16:36:36 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 12 16:40:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I want you to be madly loved&quot;  that is what i got out of this book, breton's best, right next to the immaculate conception(sic) one i want you to be madly loved, is such an ending, the book, is surrealism, if you want automatic writing without reading the last 60 pages of ulysses, this is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29981825">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri May 08 07:36:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A work one would have to be mad to love.  I did not get pleasure from reading this.]]></body>
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    <review id="51522971">
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  <read_at>Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh.  I'd rather feel mad(ly) in love than read a surrealist manifesto about it.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="11627350">
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this at Myopic after Think Galactic book group one night, while browsing with Mat Defiler. I like the surrealists (as I know Mat does) but due to the theme of this; though I was excited about reading it, I've been kind of saving it for February... if I have time to read it then.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is haunting and something that will forever be one of my favorite novels of absolute beautiful prose.  Breton is staggeringly gifted as a writer and philosopher.]]></body>
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    <review id="8198783">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 16:00:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 24 16:01:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one was confusing, I finished it while on the bus and it kind of made me want to cry, but i had to hold it in because i was on the bus, it was weird.]]></body>
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    <review id="6643059">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this is college. *sigh* I miss the time when reading books was my &quot;job&quot;.]]></body>
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    <review id="16925170">
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    <name><![CDATA[tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Mad Love&quot;?!  He shd see a history of my life.  ]]></body>
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