These translations of 47 short narratives by 24 surrealist writers span the period from 1922 (two years before Andre Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism codified surrealist principles) to 1973 (four years after the dissolution of unified surrealist group activity in France). The selections have been chosen to illustrate the whole gamut of surrealist short narrative style, ranging from fully structured tales to products of "automatic" writing.

The Custom-House of Desire: A Half Century of Surrealist Stories

Literature & Fiction

Matthews, J. H.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Univ. Of California Pr.

The Custom House of Desire: A Half-Century of Surrealist Stories

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Custom House of Desire: A Half-Century of Surrealist Stories

Genre Fiction

University of California Press

Historical Reminiscences of the Ohio Penitentiary

History

Wentworth Press

Benjamin Péret (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 359 : France)

Twayne Publishers

Surrealism and American Feature Films

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Twayne Pub

Dust jacket, in removable mylar, has some foxing to edges. Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. NOT ex-library. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature &amp; Literary; ISBN: 0815601204. ISBN/EAN: 9780815601203. Inventory No: 022470.

Toward the Poetics of Surrealism

History & Criticism

Syracuse Univ Pr

This is the first study in any language of the expression of surrealism in poetry, examined through analysis of the work of French poets from the 1920's to the 1960's. The book undertakes to show what the surrealists want to accomplish in poetry, how, and by what means. In providing evidence of the consequences of surrealism for poetry, the discussions of Aragon, Péret, Eluard, Arp, and twelve others are designed to illustrate the range of poetic response brought forth by surrealist principles, thus making clearer the norms of surrealist practice. Resting upon the conviction that "language has been given man so that he may make surrealist use of it," as André Breton said, surrealism imposes highly distinctive conditions upon poetic creation, influencing the form and content of poetry to a marked degree. The surrealists' indifference to certain conventions of twentieth-century poetry has prompted, everywhere in the world, scrutiny of the aesthetic values appropriate to poetic expression. Because of the urgency with which it has asserted its claim to make poetry a vehicle for its own ideals, and because of its lack of concern for some of the most respected ideals inherited from the past, surrealism has had an impact unequalled, in our time, by any other conception of literary communication.

Surrealist Poetry in France

Poetry

Syracuse University Press

The Imagery of Surrealism

Format Hardcover Subject 20th Century French Literature Literary Criticism Publisher Syracuse University Press

The Inner Dream: Céline as Novelist

Surrealism, Insanity, and Poetry

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