The lost steps = Les pas perdus / André Breton ; translated by Mark Polizzotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breton, André, 1896-1966.

Contributor:

Polizzotti, Mark.

Series:

French modernist library

Standardized Title:

Pas perdus. English

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

xxi, 133 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Pas perdus

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, [1996]

Summary:

The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andre Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European) intellectual life. They chronicle his tumultuous passage through the Dada movement, proclaim his explosive views on Modernism and its heroes, and herald the emergence of Surrealism itself. Along the way, we are given Breton's serious commentaries on his Modernist predecessors, Guillaume Apollinaire and Alfred Jarry, followed by his not-so-serious Dada manifestoes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-130) and index.

ISBN:

0803212429

OCLC:

34192903