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Communicating Vessels Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Breton, André (Author), Caws, Mary Ann (Translator), Harris, Geoffrey T. (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0803261357     ISBN-13: 9780803261358
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Published: March 1997
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Annotation: What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) 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."


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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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - French
Dewey: 843.912
LCCN: 90012123
Series: French Modernist Library
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 3.94" W x 8.92" L (0.40 lbs) 161 pages
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What Freud did for dreams, Andr Breton (1896-1966) 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.

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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