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Arcanum 17 : with Apertures, grafted to the end / André Breton ; translated from the French by Zack Rogow and with an introduction by Anna Balakian.
LIBRA - Special PQ2603.R35 A8713 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breton, André, 1896-1966.
- Series:
- Green integer ; 96.
- Green Integer ; 96
- Standardized Title:
- Arcane 17. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Breton, André, 1896-1966.
- Breton, André.
- Breton, André, 1896-1966--Translations into English.
- Surrealism--France.
- Surrealism.
- Authors, French.
- France.
- Authors, French--20th century.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm.
- Edition:
- First Green Integer edition.
- Other Title:
- Arcanum seventeen
- Arcanum 17 ; Apertures
- Place of Publication:
- København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer ; [Saint Paul, Minn.] : [Distributed in the U.S. by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution], 2004.
- Summary:
- Andre 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 love and loss, aggression and war, pacifism, feminism and the occult, in a book that is part prose and part poetry, part reality and part dream. In the 17th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, a naked woman beneath a sky of stars pours water from two urns into water and onto land. This card represents hope, renewal and resurrection -- the themes that permeate Arcanum 17. Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet still breath-taking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit.
- Contents:
- Arcanum 17 29
- Apertures 133.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements: [6] p. at end.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Breton, André, 1896-1966. Ajours. English.
- Apertures.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Breton, André, 1896-1966. Arcane 17. English. Arcanum 17.
- ISBN:
- 1931243271 :
- 9781931243278
- OCLC:
- 54851518
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