- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Man-woman relationship, Imaginary companions, Fiction
The first surrealist romance, the principle narrative of Nadja is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs of various surreal people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in Nadjar's presence, and which inspire him to meditate on their reality or lack of it.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and grave.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- André Breton
- First published
- March 24, 1998
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Calder Publications Ltd, Gallimard, Grove Press
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Spanish, German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780141180892
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“Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I "haunt."”
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism
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