Nadja by Andre Breton
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 teh 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 naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as not so much a thing as a way things happen, Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.
Mark Polizzotti is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andrü¾Ž–”¼ Breton (1995), Lautrü¾Ž–”¼amont Nomad (1994), The New Life: Poems (1998), and S: a novel (1997). He has translated the work of Andrü¾Ž–”¼ Breton, Renü¾Ž–”¼ Daumal, Jean Echenoz, and Marguerite Duras, among others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782070346196 |
| ISBN 10 | 2070346196 |
| Title | Nadja |
| Author | Andre Breton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallimard |
| Year published | 2007-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 227 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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