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Description for Mad Love
Paperback. Offers an adulation of love as both mystery and revelation. This book is dedicated to defying "the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust." Translator(s): Caws, Mary Ann. Series: French Modernist Library. Num Pages: 131 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 188.
Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now.
Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now.
""There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine,"" writes André Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. Mad Love is dedicated to defying ""the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust."" ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
131
Condition
New
Series
French Modernist Library
Number of Pages
131
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803260726
SKU
V9780803260726
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About Andre Breton
""Translator Caws provides a masterly introduction and annotation,"" wrote the reviewer for the Library Journal. Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, is the author or translator of more than twenty books.
Reviews for Mad Love
"Mad Love is a bizarre, beautiful book. It is a novel, an autobiography, a manifesto
a highly unusual hybrid or, better yet, a 'miracle of rare device.'... [Breton] has seduced me. I have tried to make sense, using words, of his longings. I am in love with this book, but like Breton, I cannot explain my deep, irrational responses."
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a highly unusual hybrid or, better yet, a 'miracle of rare device.'... [Breton] has seduced me. I have tried to make sense, using words, of his longings. I am in love with this book, but like Breton, I cannot explain my deep, irrational responses."
Review of Contemporary ... Read more