Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Brunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in detail.

Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton

Biographies & Memoirs

Mark Polizzotti

Arts & Literature

Commonwealth Books, Black Widow

The record grabs your attention even before the wrap comes off the sleeve. It's in the gaze. No one else was making that kind of immediate challenge from an album cover. Even Dylan, for whom the outer photo is as much a performance as the music inside - from the smug come-on of his 1962 debut to the quizzical stare of Bringing It All Back Home - was pushing something new. The look he gives almost defies you to buy the disc, to put it on the turntableBetween the fitfully brilliant Bringing It All Back Home and the sprawling masterwork that is Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited stands as the defining moment in both Dylan's career and the musical evolution of the mid 1960's. But beyond its place in history, Highway 61 works because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In this incisive book, Marl Polizzotti shines a critical light on these remarkable songs and shows us the timeless qualities that make them - and the album as a whole - so affecting.Mark Polizzotti is the author of five previous books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (1995) and Los Olvidados (2006). He lives in Boston. 33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music.

Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3 Series)

Arts & Photography

Music

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

The extraordinary life and times of a women as told by seven authors.

S: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Jean Echenoz

Patrick Deville

Harry Mathews

Florence Delay

Sonja Greenlee

Oliver Rolin

Contemporary

Brookline Books

"Simply thrilling. Its surprising denouement works a retrospective magic." - New York Times Book Review "Van Cauwelaert has assembled his plot perfectly, like an intricate timepiece, and we are amazed by the precise ticking that sounds at every twist in the tale. The book reads like a close cousin of Philip K. Dick, the acknowledged master of doubting what's real." - Olivier Delcroix "A devilishly well-oiled plot, which grabs the reader with both hands, drags him along, and twists him around." - Le Spectacle du Monde Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he's a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person—family, colleague, or doctor—can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax, or of his own paranoid delusion? In his high-powered new novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation. Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Out of My Head is a fast-paced tale of one man's desperate attempt to reclaim his existence—even at the cost of his own life.

Out of My Head: A Novel

Didier VAN CAUWELAERT

Other Press

Winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt, shosen as one of the Best Books of 2003 by The Seattle Times. One-Way recounts the comic, absurd, and all-too-believable adventures of Aziz Kemal, a young Frenchman raised as an Arab by Marseille gypsies. Arrested for a crime he did not commit, Aziz becomes the target of a government campaign to repatriate illegal immigrants and finds himself en route to Morocco, despite the fact that he is not Moroccan. Accompanying Aziz is a touchingly naïve and neurotic "humanitarian attaché" named Jean-Pierre Schneider, who drowns his own personal woes in his zeal to build a new life for his charge in a land neither one has ever seen.

One-Way

Humor & Satire

André Breton fue, en palabras de Eugène Ionesco, "uno de los cuatro o cinco grandes reformadores del pensamiento moderno"; sus actos e ideas se convirtieron en el pulso del último gran movimiento artístico del siglo XX: el surrealismo. Mark Polizzotti hace una minuciosa biografía que trasciende los episodios dramáticos e inusuales de Breton y presenta sus "momentos vacíos", sus horas de depresión o debilidad, sin alabarlo ni condenarlo, con el propósito de arrojar luz sobre los acontecimientos que contribuyeron a moldear su vida y pensamiento.

Revolución de la mente. La vida de André Breton (Noema) (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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