Nadja / by André Breton ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breton, André, 1896-1966.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Nadja. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1999?]

Summary:

Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work--pictures of various 'surreal' people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in Nadja's presence and which inspire him to meditate on their reality or lack of it.

Notes:

Originally published: Paris : Gallimard, 1928.

OCLC:

45607378