Publication
Pauvert (1989), Edition: PAUVERT
Original publication date
1945
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Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Perce Rock - its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty - as his central metaphor, Breton considers issues of love, loss, aggression, war, pacifism and feminism.
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LibraryThing member kencf0618
Intriguing, but I found the introduction & translator's preface to be more interesting than the book itself! For certain moods and connoisseurs of surrealism, I suppose.
Language
Original language
French
ISBN
272020210X / 9782720202100
Physical description
5.35 inches