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Communicating Vessels

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Description for Communicating Vessels Paperback.
What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896–1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, Les Vases communicants is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This English translation makes available "the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based."

In Communicating Vessels Breton lays out the problems of everyday experience and of intellect. His involvement with political thought and action led him to write about ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803261358
SKU
V9780803261358
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Ref
99-1

About André Breton
Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her translation of Breton’s Mad Love is also available as a Bison Book. Geoffrey T. Harris is a senior lecturer on modern languages at the University of Salford in England.

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