an impassioned but one-sided account of a surrealised, tragic affair.

the hermit crab speaks! early surrealist prose poetry and automatic writing by breton, eluard and soupault. includes the seminal texts 'the magnetic fields' and 'the immaculate conception'.

records of dreams, scripts, prose and poetry, autobiographical segments, and even movie criticism (bunuel digs buster keaton!) from the pen of one half-deranged spaniard.

less renowned but a personal favourite of mine, and one of the greatest love poets of all time. breton describes his manner of composition as 'oracular'. spellbinding, and exceedingly strange.

a dual text edition with originals, and nice translations, of works by nerval, mallarme, rimbaud, valery and baudelaire amongst others.

remembered more for his part in introducing the founding fathers of surrealism to one another, apollinaire is a fascinating writer in his own right. this is his rather odd idea of an 'autobiography'.