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This book collects together the two most vital "automatic" texts of Surrealism. Breton’s 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." ... Read more

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In terms of finding a wild, uninhibited introduction to the radical and mindspinning worlds of Breton and friends I can assure you that this is a challenging but rewarding read. However, take note that those who feelprose must have structure and communicate linear thought, please leave yourtextbook at the door. This is work that burrows deep into the subconciousand festers like a tick. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Daniel Goldberg, Joeystarr, Didier Daeninckx, Paul Éluard, Jean-Claude Marin, Kool Shen, Louis Dulongpré, Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, Myriam Lamare, Christophe Tiozzo, Wallen, Henri Decaë, Tabatha Cash, Stéphane Troussel, Claude Barthélemy, Audrey Mestre, Hakim Saci, Éric Bari, Thierry Paquot, Claude Melki, Auguste de Schonen, Jeanne Paquin, Fabrice Tiozzo, Paul Nivoix, Claude Dilain, Sabrina Ouazani, Pierre Michelot, Youssouf Touré, Ali-Azouz Mathlouthi, Francisque Poulbot, Franck Chantalou, Paule Baudouin, Olivier Thomas, Angelo Debarre, Mathieu Béroalde, Pascal Chanteur, Paul Vialar, Pascal Gourville, Didier Sénac, Didier Paillard, Alexandre Djouhri, Joseph Samson, Robert Bellanger, Moussa Koita, Louis Charles Dezobry, Auriol Guillaume, Djamel Bensalah, Alioune Touré, Kléber Piot, André le Ruyet, Boris Terral, Nadir Dendoune, Abdelaziz Kamara, Maurice Beyina, Alexandre Bias, Mickaël Pizzo, Ernest Cadine, Denise Noël, Yannis Salibur, Chriseuil de Rulhière, Saya, Azzedine Meguellatti, Livia Lancelot, Martial, Matthæi Beroaldi. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Daniel Goldberg, né le 24 août 1965 à Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), est une personnalité politique française. Élu de La Courneuve, il est député socialiste de la Seine-Saint-Denis (circonscription d'Aubervilliers-La Courneuve-Le Bourget) depuis juin 2007 particulièrement impliqué sur les questions du logement, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la lutte contre les discriminations. En mai 2007 en campagne électorale avec sa suppléante Bâ Coulibaly et Laurent Fabius. Jacques Salvator et Daniel Goldberg avec Jean-Paul Huchon en octobre 2009. Appel des députés PS pour une République moderne, Salle du jeu de paume le 22 juin 2009.En couple...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Éluard, Audrey Mestre, Loïc Lumbilla Kandja, Joeystarr, Youcef Touati, Sebastian de Maio, Didier Sénac, Saad Ichalalène, Didier Daeninckx. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Medieval16th century 17th century18th century 19th century20th century Contemporary Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 18 November 1952), a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement. He was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, just outside of Paris, son of Clément Grindel and wife Jeanne Cousin. At age 16, after a happy childhood, Éluard contracted tuberculosis and interrupted his studies. He met Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, whom he married in 1917, in the Swiss sanatorium of Davos. Together they had a daughter named Cécile. Around this time Éluard wrote his first poems. He was particularly inspired by Walt Whitman. In 1918, Jean Paulhan discovered him and introduced him to André Breton and Louis Aragon. This was his introduction to the Surrealist movement. After a marital crisis, he travelled, returning to France in 1924. His poems of this time reflect his difficulties during the period, in which he had another bout of tuberculosis and separated from Gala when she left him for Salvador Dalí. In 1934, he married Nusch (Maria Benz), a model of friends Man Ray and Pablo Picasso, who was considered somewhat of a mascot of the surrealist movement. During World War II, he was involved in the French Resistance. He battled also with his poems, such as his 1942 poem Liberty and Les sept poèmes d'amour en guerre (1944). His work was quite militant, yet simple. He joined the French Communist Party in 1942, which led to his break from the Surrealists, and he later eulogised Stalin in his political ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=68241 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Vergès, Louis Althusser, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Éluard, Louis Durey, Alain Badiou, Cornelius Castoriadis, Maxime Rodinson, Henri Alleg, Régis Debray, Benny Lévy, Guy Môquet, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Edgar Morin, Inessa Armand, Daniel Guérin, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Jean Suret-Canale, Claude Lefort, Gilles Dauvé, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Danielle Mitterrand, Danielle Casanova, Maximilien Rubel, Jacques Camatte, Paul Vergès, Gilbert Achcar, France Bloch-Sérazin, Rodolphe Prager, Pierre Broué, Alain Guionnet, Huguette Bello, Jean-Michel Mension, Pierre Semard, Élie Hoarau, Henri Barbé, Pierre Célor, Arbeiter Und Soldat, Henri Guilbeaux, Martha Desrumeaux. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 210. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michel Foucault (French pronunciation: ), born Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 25 June 1984), was a French philosopher, sociologist, and historian. He held a chair at the prestigious Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Berkeley. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse has been widely discussed and taken up by others. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with Structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the post-structuralist and postmodernist labels later attributed to him, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Kant. Foucault is particularly influenced by the work of Nietzsche; ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=47643 ... Read more