Boring

[Sarah]

Really. Really. Boring.

[[deleted user]]

Couldn't disagree more, respectfully. It was - to me - the perfect surrealist take on the Parisian ideal of the "flaneur" or poetic pedestrian, walking about the city and re-imagining its sites and sounds as places of chance encounters and desire. One if the essential surrealist documents.

[Osiris]

i dont think this was ever meant to be anything but literary chloroform, probably written merely too get andre breton to say it was a masterpiece so everyone could have a good laugh at him.

[[deleted user]]

I would suggest looking into the history and the why's as well as the what's and the precursors, the influencers, and the project as a whole (Surrealism/ oppression/ repression/ psychic proclivities ). When I first tried to read it I only made it a third of the way through. It's not a 'novel' yet it is fiction. Possibly, if you learn and study everything you can (may take a few years...may take many years) about dada and surrealism as well as the naturalists/ the symbolists/ some decadents and the modernists/ post- you'd enjoy it more?
Thats what I did and I did enjoy it more as well as appreciate it more for what it is...whatever that may be....literature, I believe.