Surrealism : The Road to the Absolute

Surrealism : The Road to the Absolute

Editorial Reviews Book Description First published in 1959, Surrealism remains the most readable introduction to the French surrealist poets Apollinaire, Breton, Aragon, Eluard, and Reverdy. Providing a much-needed overview of the movement, Balakian places the surrealists in the context of early twentieth-century Paris and describes their reactions to symbolist poetry, World War I, and developments in science and industry, psychology, philosophy, and painting. Her coherent history of the movement is enhanced by her firsthand knowledge of the intellectual climate in which some of these poets worked and her interviews with Reverdy and Breton. In a new introduction, Balakian discusses the influence of surrealism on contemporary poetry.

This volume includes photographs of the poets and reproductions of paintings by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy, and others.

Surrealism : The Road to the Absolute,Anna Balakian,University Of Chicago Press,0226035603,20th century,Continental European,France,French Poetry,General,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Photography,Poetry,Surrealism (Literature),Poetry / Single Author / Continental European

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