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Andre Breton Selectionsby Andre Breton, Mark PolizzottiISBN 0520239547 (0-520-23954-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andre Breton Selections'Book summary:Founder of the Surrealist movement, André Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings. The translations, a number of which are published here for the first time, are by some of the most notable poets in our language, including David Antin, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Michael Benedikt, Robert Duncan, David Gascoyne, and Charles Simic. This volume also includes an extensive biographical and thematic introduction by Mark Polizzotti, which sets the poems in the context of Breton's life and overall career.[via]More editions of Andre Breton Selections:
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Anthology of Black Humorby Andre Breton, Mark PolizzottiISBN 0872863212 (0-87286-321-2)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthology of Black Humor'Book summary:[via]This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Bretons definitive statement on lhumour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in the Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readersSwift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Bretons selections are often surprising)many others are sure to come as a revelation.
The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia of Dalí, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur Craven to the offhand hilarity of Apollinaire at his most spontaneous. For each of the forty-five authors included, Breton has provided an enlightening biographical and critical preface, situating both the writer and the work in the context of black humora partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as a superior revolt of the mind.
Andre Breton (1896-1966), the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement, is one of the major literary figures of the past century. His best-known works in English translation include Nadja, Mad Love, The Manifestoes of Surrealism, The Magnetic Fields (with Philippe Soupault), and Earthlight. Mark Polizzotti is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton.
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The Automatic Message: The Magnetic Fields ; The Immaculate Conceptionby Andre Breton, Paul EluardISBN 0947757228 (0-947757-22-8)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Automatic Message: The Magnetic Fields ; The Immaculate Conception'Book summary:This book collects together the two most vital "automatic" texts of Surrealism. Bretons prefatory essay The Automatic Message relates this technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of the Surrealist movement.
The Magnetic Fields (1919) was the first work of literary Surrealism and is thus one of the foundations of modern European thought and writing. This authorised translation is by the poet David Gascoyne, himself a member of the group and a friend of both authors.
The Immaculate Conception (1930) traces the interior and exterior life of man from Conception and Intra-Uterine Life to Death and The Original Judgement. The central section is a celebrated series of "simulations" of various types of mental instability.
Maurice Nadeau (in The History of Surrealism) described the book as "An astonishing series of poems in prose, more brilliant than those of either Breton or Eluard on his own . . . if all that remained of the Surrealist movement were the pages of The Immaculate Conception, man, alerted, could not turn away from the astounding mystery of his condition." [via]
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The Automatic Message: The Magnetic Fields ; The Immaculate Conceptionby David Gascoyne, Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault, Paul Eluard, Jon Graham, Antony MelvilleISBN 1900565013 (1-900565-01-3)
Hardcover, Atlas Press
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A Book of Surrealist Gamesby Alastair Brotchie, Mel GoodingISBN 1570620849 (1-57062-084-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Book of Surrealist Games'Book summary:Surrealism is far more than some dead art movement: it is also a collection of tools for perceiving and representing the world in ways that transcend normative perspectives. This delightful little book is packed with word and image games that surrealists developed to create their written and graphical art. If you have any spark of creativity, you are strongly encouraged to get this book to help loosen the holds of quotidian existence on your craft. And it makes a great book of activities for parties that you want to rise above petite bourgeois posturing. Highly Recommended. [via]
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Communicating Vesselsby Andre Breton, Geoffrey T. Harris, Mary Ann CawsISBN 0803261357 (0-8032-6135-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communicating Vessels'Book summary:What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (18961966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, Les Vases communicants is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This English translation makes available "the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based."[via]In Communicating Vessels Breton lays out the problems of everyday experience and of intellect. His involvement with political thought and action led him to write about the relations between nations and individuals in a mode that moves from the quotidian to the lyrical. His dreams triggered a curious correspondence with Freud, available only in this book. As Caws writes, "The whole history of surrealism is here, in these pages."
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Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chroniclesby Haruki Murakami, Lourdes Porta Fuentes, Jun'ichi MatsuuraISBN 8483101718 (84-8310-171-8)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chronicles'Book summary:Tooru Okada, un joven japonés que acaba de dejar voluntariamente su trabajo en un bufete de abogados, recibe un buen día la llamada anónima de una mujer. A partir de ese momento la vida de Tooru, que había transcurrido por los cauces de la más absoluta normalidad, empieza a sufrir una extraña transformación. A su alrededor van apareciendo personajes cada vez más extraños, y la realidad, o lo real, va degradándose hasta convertirse en algo fantasmagórico.
The masterpiece of Japanese cult writer Haruki Murakami, the story of Tooru Okada, a young lawyer whose life begins to undergo a bizarre transformation. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle presents a collection of characters as surprising as they are real. [via]More editions of Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chronicles:
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Daliby Robert DescharnesISBN 0810908301 (0-8109-0830-1)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dali'Book summary:(50 SECRETS OF MAGIC CRAFTSMANSHIP) BY Dali, Salvador(Author)Paperback Jun-1992 [via]
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Dalí : The Paintingsby Gilles Néret, Robert DescharnesISBN 3822812099 (3-8228-1209-9)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dalí : The Paintings'Book summary:Almost half Dalí's illustrations in this book have rarely been seen
This publication presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). After many years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret finally located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. Many of the works had been inaccessible for years - in fact so many that almost half the illustrations in this book have rarely been seen. [via]
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Dali: The Paintingsby Taschen StaffISBN 3822882631 (3-8228-8263-1)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dali: The Paintings'Book summary:Like New - Book Fine Dust jacket Fine [via]
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Der Prozessby Franz KafkaISBN 0435385011 (0-435-38501-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Die Verwandlungby Franz KafkaISBN 3596258758 (3-596-25875-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Verwandlung'Book summary:"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt".
Welch ein Satz! Ich erinnere mich, ihn in den 60er Jahren zum ersten Mal gelesen zu haben. Kafka galt in unserer Clique eine Zeitlang als jemand, den man gelesen haben mußte, um mitreden zu können. Verstanden habe ich damals eigentlich nichts. Oder fast nichts. Nur, daß etwas Ungeheuerliches geschehen war. In diesem Buch und mit mir.Da erwacht also dieser Gregor, ein junger Handlungsreisender, der unter seinem Beruf und der Lieblosigkeit seiner Umwelt leidet, eines Morgens als riesiges Insekt. Zur Arbeit zu gehen, macht in seinem Zustand wenig Sinn. Schon taucht der erboste Prokurist auf und verlangt wütend eine Erklärung für Gregors Fernbleiben. Diese Szene, in der Gregor hinter verschlossener Tür sein Verhalten entschuldigt, seinen Käferkörper zur Tür quält und sich schließlich zu erkennen gibt, ist so haarsträubend kafkaesk, daß spätestens jetzt dieser Begriff jedem einleuchten dürfte. Gregors Familie ist angewidert, läßt den Sohn aber bei sich wohnen, bis schließlich -- nun, Sie werden es erfahren.
Keine Erklärung, nur dieser Hilfeschrei! Solche Radikalität war neu in der Literatur. Deutungen gab es viele. Gregor, wie Kafka, ein schwacher Mensch, der Tag für Tag mitansehen muß, wie diese Welt mit Schwachen umgeht, droht daran zugrundezugehen und vollzieht Die Verwandlung. Das ist seine "Rettung".
Im Jahre 1912 geschrieben, wurde Die Verwandlung noch zu Kafkas Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Ein literarisches Jahrhundertereignis. Wie nachhaltig die Wirkung noch heute ist, läßt sich am Werk solcher Regiegrößen wie David Lynch und Polanski, um nur einige zu nennen, ablesen. --Ravi Unger [via]
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El Proceso / the Processby Franz KafkaISBN 8437608562 (84-376-0856-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Proceso / the Process'Book summary:This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 1555460704 (1-55546-070-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis'Book summary:Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line--the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the transformation. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings.
The title, Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Franz Kafka, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Hearing Trumpetby Leona Carrington, Pablo Weisz CarringtonISBN 1878972197 (1-878972-19-7)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The History of Surrealismby Maurice Nadeau, Richard HowardISBN 0674403452 (0-674-40345-2)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Surrealism'Book summary:"I believe," André Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surréalité." The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of artists as different as Ernst, Miró, Magritte, and Dali.
Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic. It is both lucid and authoritative--by far the best overall account of this complex movement. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art. He relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment. And he provides the statements and manifestos of Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and others.
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Kafka On The Shoreby Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel, Philip GabrielISBN 1400079276 (1-4000-7927-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kafka on the Shore'Book summary:With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddleyet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the worlds truly great storytellers at the height of his powers. [via] -
La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 9500362406 (950-03-6240-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis'Book summary:-Al despertar Gregorio Samza una manana, se encontro en su cama convertido en un montruoso insecto.-Tal es el abrupto comienzo, que nos situa de raiz bajo unas reglas distintas, de LA METAMORFOSIS, sin duda la onra de Franz Kafka 1883-1924 que ha alcanzado mayor celebridad. [via]
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- La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9505811322 (950-581-132-2)
Softcover, Colihue/Argentina - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9583002879 (958-30-0287-9)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9875505471 (987-550-547-1)
Softcover, Longseller S.A. - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 8484034445 (84-8403-444-5)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9500362406 (950-03-6240-6)
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- La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9505811322 (950-581-132-2)
Mad Loveby Andre BretonISBN 0803260725 (0-8032-6072-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Mad Love/L'Amour Fouby Andre Breton, Mary Ann CawsISBN 0803212003 (0-8032-1200-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Magritteby Jacques MeurisISBN 3822834963 (3-8228-3496-3)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magritte'Book summary:[via]In the search for the "mystery" that envelops things and organisms, Reni Magritte (1898-1967) created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, followed a unique, otherworldly logic. He invented an inimitable pictorial language that he used to question our usual comprehension of reality and art. In this book, Jacques Meuris traces Magritte's artistic development from its beginnings until the end of his life, revealing the originality of this great Belgian Surrealist.More editions of Magritte:
Manifestoes of Surrealismby Andree BretonISBN 0472061828 (0-472-06182-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, David Farr, Gisliorn GardarssonISBN 184002688X (1-84002-688-X)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphosis'Book summary:[via]In this, his most famous story, Franz Kafka explores the notions of alienation and human loneliness through extraordinary narrative technique and depth of imagination. Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a repulsive bug. Trapped inside this hideous form, his mind remains unchangeduntil he sees the shocked reaction of those around him. He begins to question the basis of human love and, indeed, the entire purpose of his existence. But this, it seems, is only the beginning of his ordeal. Franz Kafka is one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century literature; his work, much of which was published posthumously, includes The Trial and The Castle.More editions of Metamorphosis:
- Metamorphosis : And Other Stories: ISBN 1843914093 (1-84391-409-3)
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Softcover, Prestwick House Inc - Metamorphosis: ISBN 1843910144 (1-84391-014-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - Metamorphosis: ISBN 184002688X (1-84002-688-X)
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- Metamorphosis : And Other Stories: ISBN 1843914093 (1-84391-409-3)
Nadjaby A. BretonISBN 0802150268 (0-8021-5026-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nadja'Book 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.[via]-
Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James GrauerholzISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0394538846 (0-394-53884-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0613706188 (0-613-70618-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802116396 (0-8021-1639-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
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Nightwalker: (Le Paysan De Paris)by AragonISBN 0136224806 (0-13-622480-6)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwalker: (Le Paysan De Paris)'Book summary:Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern." The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: café menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. André Breton wrote of this work: "no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city. . . ." [via]
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Paris Peasantby Louis Aragon, Simon Watson TaylorISBN 1878972103 (1-878972-10-3)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris Peasant'Book summary:Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern." The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: café menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. André Breton wrote of this work: "no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city. . . ." [via]
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Rene Magritte: 1898-1967by Jacques MeurisISBN 3822805467 (3-8228-0546-7)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rene Magritte: 1898 - 1967'Book summary:The artist's most unforgettable images come together in an exquisite study of his life and work. This comprehensive and provocative monograph traces the influences on Magritte's art while 400 illustrations show the full range of his work. Not only the well-known paintings but also lesser-known murals, photographs, sculptures, and commercial works are represented. 400 illustrations, 110 in full-color.[via] 
Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thought Rendered Visibleby Marcel PaquetISBN 1571451269 (1-57145-126-9)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thought Rendered Visible'Book summary:Le sens du stupéfiant, de lincroyable et du ridicule dans les tableaux de Magritte [via]
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Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thought Rendered Visibleby Rene Magritte, Marcel PaquetISBN 3822896489 (3-8228-9648-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thought Rendered Visible'Book summary:The illustrations in this work constitute a comprehensive catalogue of the visible thought of the artist. Taking the form of the body in painting or of the relations between image and word, this book presents the poetic enigmas of the Belgian surrealist. [via]
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Salvador Daliby Salvador Dali, Robert Descharnes, Eleanor R. MorseISBN 0810991330 (0-8109-9133-0)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salvador Dali'Book summary:Written by the foremost scholars for a general audience, Abrams' Masters of Art series has proved its popularity over the years, becoming the industry's best-selling art history monograph series. In each book, forty full-page colorplates are accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work. Other illustrations show the artist at varied points in his career, his contemporaries, and comparative works. The series is now being reissued in paperback, and will be redesigned to bring a contemporary feel to these classic Abrams titles. The individual artists selected for this first round of revisions - Van Gogh, Monet, Dali, Renoir, Bosch, and Leonardo da Vinci - were chosen because of their enduring popularity and their continued influence on the art of today. [via]
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Salvador Dali 1904-1989by Gilles NeretISBN 1571450963 (1-57145-096-3)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salvador Dali 1904-1989'Book summary:[via]Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.More editions of Salvador Dali 1904-1989:
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Salvador Dali: 1904-1989by Salvador Dali, Gilles NeretISBN 3822893269 (3-8228-9326-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Story of the Eyeby George BatailleISBN 0872862097 (0-87286-209-7)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of the Eye'Book summary:Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing." Bataille has been called a "metaphysician of evil," specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror. Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir cites Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album. Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended. [via]
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Theatre and Its Doubleby Antonin Artaud, Victor CortiISBN 0714542342 (0-7145-4234-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theatre and Its Double'Book summary:Since its first publication in 1938, The Theater and Its Double by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western culture. According to Artaud, the theater's "double" is similar to its Jungian "shadow," the unacknowledged, unconscious element that completes it but is in many ways its opposite. As "culture" inexorably draws the artistic impulse into safe channels, the repressed irrational urges of theater, based on dreams, religion, and emotion, are increasingly necessary to "purge" the sickness of society. Artaud identifies language itself as one of the major cultural culprits, and his attacks on it occasionally makes his text rough going. But his challenge to restore relevance to the heart of the theatrical experience remains fundamental to the vitality of theater, and his insistence on the sensory experience of drama as opposed to the literary (and such innovative ideas as the use of unconventional "found spaces") continues to be the clarion call of the theatrical avant-garde. --John Longenbaugh [via]
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Douglas Scott, Christopher Waller, J. P. SternISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, [Kafka] will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well-fed.") Among the current crop of Kafka heirs is Breon Mitchell, the translator of this edition of The Trial. Rather than tidying up Kafka's unconventional grammar and punctuation (as previous translators have done), Mitchell captures the loose, uneasy, even uncomfortable constructions of Kafka's original story. His translation technique is the only way to convey the comedy and confusion of this narrative, in which Josef K., "without having done anything truly wrong," is arrested, tried, convicted and executed--on a charge that is never disclosed to him. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Steven BerkoffISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press
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Une Semaine De BontE: A Surrealistic Novel in Collageby Max ErnstISBN 0486232522 (0-486-23252-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Une Semaine De BontE: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage'Book summary:The great surrealist's collage masterpiece was printed in 1934 in a limited edition of five now-priceless pamphlets. This single-volume edition contains all of the original publication's 182 bizarre, darkly humorous scenes of violent dreams and erotic fantasies. "One of the clandestine classics of our century." The New York Times.[via]More editions of Une Semaine De BontE: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage:
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicleby Haruki MurakamiISBN 1860464696 (1-86046-469-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'Book summary:Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake [via]
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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movementby Whitney ChadwickISBN 0500276226 (0-500-27622-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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El Almuerzo Desnudoby W. BURROUGHSISBN 8433920081 (84-339-2008-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Almuerzo Desnudo'Book summary:Esta novela, una de las mas miticas de la literatura norteamericana, es un descenso a los infiernos de la droga y una denuncia horrorizada y sardonica, onirica y alucinatoria de la sociedad actual, un mundo sin esperanza ni futuro. Burroughs dispara sus flechas contra las religiones, el ejercito, la universidad, la sexualidad, la justicia corrupta, los traficantes tramposos, el colonialismo, la burocracia, y la psiquiatria representada por el siniestro Dr. Benway, el gran manipulador de conciencias, el experto en Control total. / Naked Lunch, one of the most mythical novels of North American literature, is a descent into the hellfire of drugs, and a horrified, sardonic, dreamlike and hallucinatory denouncement of todays society, a world with no hope and no future. Burroughs fires his arrows against religion, the army, university, sexuality, the corruption of justice, cheating dealers, colonialism, bureaucracy and the psychiatry represented by the sinister Dr. Benway, the great manipulator of consciences, the expert of total Control. [via]
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Los Cantos De Maldoror Poesias / The Chants of Maldoror Poetryby Isidore Ducasse Conde De LautreamontISBN 8424927184 (84-249-2718-4)
Hardcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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La Metamorfosis/ The Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 8420633518 (84-206-3351-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis'Book summary:-Al despertar Gregorio Samza una manana, se encontro en su cama convertido en un montruoso insecto.-Tal es el abrupto comienzo, que nos situa de raiz bajo unas reglas distintas, de LA METAMORFOSIS, sin duda la onra de Franz Kafka 1883-1924 que ha alcanzado mayor celebridad. [via]
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El Proceso / the Trialby Franz KafkaISBN 8495311313 (84-95311-31-3)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Proceso / the Trial'Book summary:This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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Rene Magritteby Marcel PaquetISBN 3822806846 (3-8228-0684-6)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Salvador Daliby Gilles NeretISBN 3822895490 (3-8228-9549-0)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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El Teatro Y Su Doble/the Theater And It's Doubleby Antonin ArtaudISBN 9685960216 (968-5960-21-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Les Chants De Maldoror ; Poesies I Et II ; Correspondanceby Lautreamont, Jean-Luc SteinmetzISBN 2080705288 (2-08-070528-8)
Hardcover, Flammarion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Chants De Maldoror ; Poesies I Et II ; Correspondance'Book summary:De la peste, du pus et des poux : tel pourrait être le leitmotiv de cet invraisemblable petit brûlot, tout entier nourri de violence, d'idées morbides et de délires à la limite du supportable. Et que n'ont pas supporté les bien-pensants de l'époque, les mêmes qui, à Charleville, méprisaient Rimbaud et l'accusaient, comme on accusa Lautréamont, de vouloir tuer la poésie. Mais le vertige et la démesure furent plus forts que les réactionnaires : Maldoror, le double maléfique de Lautréamont, en crachant son poison et son fiel, jetait les bases d'une des oeuvres les plus énigmatiques et les plus fascinantes de notre poésie.
Alchimie délirante d'un esprit dément, sublime perle noire née d'un champ d'ordures, Les Chants de Maldoror demeurent l'une des rares traces de la fulgurante trajectoire d'Isidore Ducasse, mystérieusement foudroyé en pleine jeunesse. Sa mort, après son oeuvre illuminée, allait alimenter sa légende et le faire entrer dans le club très fermé des poètes mythiques. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Les Manifestes du Surrealismeby Andre BretonISBN 2070322793 (2-07-032279-3)
Hardcover, Flammarion et Cie
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Le Paysan De Parisby Louis AragonISBN 2070367827 (2-07-036782-7)
Softcover, Gallimard
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