André Breton, Manifeste du surréalisme [Surrealist Manifesto]

Benjamin Andréo (Monash University)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1924

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay / Lecture (literary)
- Pamphlets/ Tracts/ Chapbooks

Resources

Manifeste du surréalisme (1924; reed. 1929) is the first of three programmatic texts written by André Breton. Together with Second manifeste du surréalisme (1930; Reed. 1946) and Prolégomènes à un troisième manifeste du surréalisme ou non (1942), it is often collected under the title Manifestes du surréalisme. Manifeste deserves consideration in its own right, however. Its value lies at the intersection of the collective and the personal (“son sort dépen[d] étroitement du mien propre” (9) [“its fate is closely linked to my own”], Breton reminds us in his second preface). It is at once serious a…

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Citation: Andréo, Benjamin. "Manifeste du surréalisme". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 September 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=33204, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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