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This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired.
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Spare, character-led, comic and cool.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- André Breton, Mark Polizzotti
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 430
- Publisher
- PAUVERT, Brodard et Taupin., Distributed by Subterranean Co.
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Spanish, French, English, mul
- ISBN
- 9780785907848
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About André Breton · 1896–1966
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism
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