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Using the huge Perc  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\u0026gt;\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eArcanum 17\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet still breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator Zack Rogow shared the 1993 PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for\u0026gt;\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarthlight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e by Andr  Breton. His translation of George Sand's\u0026gt;\u003cstrong\u003eHorace\u003c\/strong\u003e won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Association Award. 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Among the other essays in the volume are Burial Denied and In Self-Defense, two pieces that, in translator Mark Polizzotti's words, mark surrealism's conscious break from the mainstream and the beginning of its attempts to work alongside the French Communist Party. Also included are Psychiatry Standing before Surrealism, which addresses Breton's complex, ambivalent views on mental illness and the emerging psychiatric establishment; Introduction to Achim von Arnim's Strange Tales, which reveals surrealism's debt to such precursors as the German romantics and delineates a surrealistic aesthetic of the macabre; and Picasso in His Element, in which Breton demonstrates his formidable talents as a critic of the visual arts. Mark Polizzotti is the editorial director of David R. Godine, Inc. He is the translator of numerous works and the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andr  Breton. Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and the author or editor of some forty-one books, most recently The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007443632401,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007446483217,"sku":"NIN9780803220843","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51835816116497,"sku":"GOR014419123","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53039942140177,"sku":"CIN0803220847G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803220847.jpg?v=1761390151"},{"product_id":"lost-steps-book-andre-breton-9780803228146","title":"The Lost Steps","description":"A collection of critical and polemical essays.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007652331793,"sku":"NIN9780803228146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53399043146001,"sku":"GOR013240464","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803228147.jpg?v=1761388826"},{"product_id":"arcane-17-book-andr-breton-9782720202100","title":"Arcane 17","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51061373042961,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061375303953,"sku":"NIN9782720202100","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/272020210X.jpg?v=1751030151"},{"product_id":"reussir-son-bac-de-francais-2024-book-andr-breton-9782385095895","title":"Réussir son Bac de français 2024","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51088494428433,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51088496427281,"sku":"NIN9782385095895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2385095890.jpg?v=1750772722"},{"product_id":"reussir-son-bac-de-francais-2024-book-andr-breton-9782385094454","title":"Réussir son Bac de français 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatients are increasingly encouraged to take an active role in managing their health and health care. 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