![]() | Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Andre Breton
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.15 an impassioned but one-sided account of a surrealised, tragic affair.
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![]() | Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon
Buy new: £7.91 / Used from: £5.84 the parks and arcades of '20s paris alchemically transfigured under aragon's unsentimental yet touchingly affectionate gaze.
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![]() | The Automatic Message (Atlas Anti-classics) by Andre Breton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £21.49 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'.
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![]() | Love, Poetry (Translation Series) by Paul Eluard
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £6.74 an early (twenties) work by perhaps the most celebrated 'pure poet' of the movement.
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![]() | An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Bunuel by L Bunuel
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £10.45 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.
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![]() | Surrealism (World of Art) by Patrick Waldberg
Buy used from: £0.01 duchamp, magritte, man ray, tanguy and all the rest. as well as a potted history of the movement, it contains articles drawn from la revolution surrealiste and other sources.
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![]() | Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
Buy new: £14.39 / Used from: £10.07 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.
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![]() | The Book of Masks: French Symbolist and Decadent Writing of the 1890s by Remy de Gourmont
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £5.99 another hit from the heroic atlas press... brief character sketches and excerpts from the works of symbolist and avant garde writers, the magic seeds from which surrealism grew.
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![]() | French Symbolist Poetry (CAL 21) by MacIntyre
Buy new: £11.50 / Used from: £2.22 a dual text edition with originals, and nice translations, of works by nerval, mallarme, rimbaud, valery and baudelaire amongst others.
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![]() | Illuminations (New Directions Paperbook, No. 56) by Arthur Rimbaud
Buy new: £7.22 / Used from: £2.97 these inexplicably bewitching prose poems form the apotheosis of rimbaud's "alchemie du verbe". a mystical, almost impregnable work to which i am yet drawn to return, time and time again.
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![]() | The Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £1.50 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'.
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![]() | The Monk: A Romance (Penguin Classics) by Matthew Lewis
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £1.99 cited as an influence by many of the surrealists, it's also a fine (and in its time scandalous) tale of some shady goings on in a monastery, with picaresque detours like the tale of the bleeding nun.
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![]() | Aurelia and Other Writings by Gerald De Nerval
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £4.72 |
![]() | Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Andre Breton
Buy new: £12.86 / Used from: £10.50 |
![]() | Une Semaine De Bonté: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst
Buy new: £8.15 / Used from: £9.89 |
![]() | Hebdomeros: With "Monsieur Dudron's Adventure" and Other Metaphysical Writings by Giorgio de Chirico
Buy used from: £10.03 |
![]() | Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton by Mark Polizzotti
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £10.11 |
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