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Jul 16, 2011
striking a spark from two images; longer spark from rarer gases gives greater fugue
"desired suddenness from certain associations" (41, first Manifesto)
series of events run parallel to real events; our ideals & expectations & revisions as we live
"In the final analysis, it's not such a bad thing for these images to upset the mind, for to upset the mind is to put it in the wrong." (39)
"Surrealism, such as I conceive of it, asserts our com More...
"desired suddenness from certain associations" (41, first Manifesto)
series of events run parallel to real events; our ideals & expectations & revisions as we live
"In the final analysis, it's not such a bad thing for these images to upset the mind, for to upset the mind is to put it in the wrong." (39)
"Surrealism, such as I conceive of it, asserts our com More...
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Jan 29, 2012
Luscinnia
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Wie bei (fast) jeder vorhergehenden Unilektüre, hab ich auch dieses Werk (noch) nicht ganz gelesen.
Es war ein wenig mühsam und entweder weicht mein Hirn langsam auf oder der Mensch drückt sich zu kompliziert aus. Vieles hab ich irgendwie nicht richtig erfassen können und somit nicht verstehen können. Für meine Hausarbeit werde ich aber meine Nase nochmal in das Buch stecken müssen. Aber erstmal gönn ich mir ein paar Tage Weihnachtsferien ohne Unikram :)
Es war ein wenig mühsam und entweder weicht mein Hirn langsam auf oder der Mensch drückt sich zu kompliziert aus. Vieles hab ich irgendwie nicht richtig erfassen können und somit nicht verstehen können. Für meine Hausarbeit werde ich aber meine Nase nochmal in das Buch stecken müssen. Aber erstmal gönn ich mir ein paar Tage Weihnachtsferien ohne Unikram :)
Apr 19, 2011
Amandine
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Lu le Manifeste du Surréalisme de 1924: intéressant, bien que j'aie parfois eu l'impression qu'il laissait aller sa pensée et en perdait quelque peu le fil de son exposé auquel il se raccrochait ensuite tant bien que mal. J'ai surtout apprécié lire la façon dont il a "découvert" l'écriture automatique et ses conseils à ceux qui voudraient s'y essayer. Ce qui m'a déplu, surtout au début, est son ton de "juge" face à l'attitude réaliste: j'ai lu plusieurs manifestes et, même en
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Jun 01, 2009
Dave
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This greatly colored my perception of art. The best art manifesto I've ever read.
(Oddly, the surrealist concept seems to work in many of the visual fields, but not lit. God, did it fail in writing. Doesn't hold up well in narrative.)
Also, oddly, I felt that the first fully-realized surrealist film came decades later, and was not generally seen as part of the movement, but in my opinion, that's what it was at heart: Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" This is what Dal More...
(Oddly, the surrealist concept seems to work in many of the visual fields, but not lit. God, did it fail in writing. Doesn't hold up well in narrative.)
Also, oddly, I felt that the first fully-realized surrealist film came decades later, and was not generally seen as part of the movement, but in my opinion, that's what it was at heart: Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" This is what Dal More...
Sep 07, 2007
علی
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بخش هایی از این کتاب سال ها پیش توسط رضا سید حسینی به فارسی ترجمه شده است.
تا چند روز پیش نمی دانستم که این کتاب به تمامی توسط عبدالله کوثری ترجمه شده.
در بین کتاب های تازه ای که به همت دوستی نازنین برایم رسیده، این ترجمه که چند سال پیش چاپ شده، برایم جالب بود. این سرگذشت سوررئالیسم از 1919 به بعد، به زبان یکی از بنیان گذاران این مکتب است و کار عبدالله کوثری در ترجمه ی اثر قابل ستایش است.
خواندن سرگذشت نیم قرن جنبش سوررئالیسم و فراز و نشیب هایش از زبان آندره برتون و با ترجمه ی کو More...
تا چند روز پیش نمی دانستم که این کتاب به تمامی توسط عبدالله کوثری ترجمه شده.
در بین کتاب های تازه ای که به همت دوستی نازنین برایم رسیده، این ترجمه که چند سال پیش چاپ شده، برایم جالب بود. این سرگذشت سوررئالیسم از 1919 به بعد، به زبان یکی از بنیان گذاران این مکتب است و کار عبدالله کوثری در ترجمه ی اثر قابل ستایش است.
خواندن سرگذشت نیم قرن جنبش سوررئالیسم و فراز و نشیب هایش از زبان آندره برتون و با ترجمه ی کو More...
Mar 19, 2010
Elizabeth
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I have been rereading this with my students and I find much to enjoy here. Sometimes Breton is a blowhard, sure, but isn't that part of the pleasure? The "Before/After" section is priceless in that regard. But sometimes Breton speaks good sense, as when he defends the free practice of art as against ideology to a conference of the communist party.
Jul 16, 2010
Matthew
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the prose pieces are grating and often pointless but his essays and commentaries are interesting and mildly enlightening. plus, this edition is gorgeously printed in a newspaper-like style with artistic fonts and blotchy over-inked transition graphics that bring to mind iron embroidery.
Jan 08, 2011
Jason
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While the first manifesto and automatic writing examples are entertaining, the name calling and attempts to act as if an artistic movement was Breton's pet movement to control totally expose him as a colossal humbug.
Aug 01, 2009
Chris
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addressed only as Goku in mute swans are not native to the Kromme Rijn (Crooked Rhine) branches off, and an internet tutoring utility for learning and practicing its feminine form and everything else.
Sep 07, 2011
Rachel
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Okay, "read" is a strong way to put this. Read the first two manifestos and part of Soluble Fish, with the intention to return to it. Onto The Metamorphosis!
Sep 06, 2011
Dorian
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Ce livre est, à coup sûr, le livre le plus décevant que j'ai jamais lu.
André Breton y explique finalement fort peu la théorie du surréalisme, et la diversité de ses pratiques. Il se contente de formuler dans ses deux manifestes un ramassis de détails, de conflits de personne et de basses informations. Ceci sans compter les notes de bas de page, d'une longueur proprement interminable.
André Breton y explique finalement fort peu la théorie du surréalisme, et la diversité de ses pratiques. Il se contente de formuler dans ses deux manifestes un ramassis de détails, de conflits de personne et de basses informations. Ceci sans compter les notes de bas de page, d'une longueur proprement interminable.
Jun 10, 2008
Darren
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Whether Breton is to receive the largest thanks or not, due to a microcosm of zeitgeist, Surrealism has a name, a credo, edicts, catalogued respiration, and beautiful folly. May yachts grow complex, adulterous, arch, and silly personalities as we inaugurate the next 1,326 years in random order. Thanks!
May 28, 2008
Tedb0t
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I admit it: I borrowed this from the FAC Architecture Library and never gave it back, because the binding was so perfectly aged and worn. I paid them for a replacement... but I got what I wanted.
Jul 12, 2007
Wavegenerator
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A somewhat difficult read, but this is the quintessential statement of the surrealists' position regarding the philosophy of art and thought.
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