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Manifestoes of Surrealism
Andre Breton · 1969 · 304 pages
Manifestoes of Surrealism is an essential text by André Breton, a French writer and poet, and co-founder of the Surrealist movement. This volume includes Breton's 1924 surrealist manifesto, his second manifesto from 1930, and extracts from other letters and works. Drawing on Freudian psychoanalysis, dream logic, and automatic writing, Breton rejects rationalism and embraces the unconscious as a path to artistic and social liberation.
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Justin Vivian Bond
“Nothing in The Surrealist Manifesto makes sense but it’s endlessly readable nonetheless. When I’m writing and I get stuck I crack it open, point to a sentence and take it from there. Who needs to be linear? Not me. I don’t go anywhere without it.”↗