One of the founders of surrealism, Benjamin Péret lived a life resistant to any aesthetic or political compromise. Though he was the writer most admired within the surrealist group itself, very little of his work has been previously translated. This, the first authorized collection, will assemble his finest work—his novel, Death to Pigs and to the Field of Glory, poems, polemical and critical writings, and unclassifiable works like "Natural History" and "The Round-the-World Calendar of Tolerable Inventions."This volume will also include the first detailed biography of Péret to appear in English, based on sources only recently brought to light. Octavio Paz has described Péret's writings as "among the most original and most savage of our era." Breton wrote, "Humor here gushes from its source."At last, the source is available in English.

Death to the Pigs, and Other Writings (French Modernist Library) (English and French Edition)

Péret, Benjamin

Literature & Fiction

University Of Nebraska Press

Death to the Pigs and Other Writings (French Modernist Library) (English and French Edition)

Literary

A Marvelous World: Poems

Poetry

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Benjamin Peret is a poet like no other, "the quintessential Surrealist poet," according to Luis Bunuel. One of the original group of Surrealists, he seceded from the Dadaists in 1924 and remained faithful to Surrealist principles until his death in 1959. His irreverence and incandescent imagination remain fresh and funny, and they are perfectly captured in this inspired, idiomatic translation. From the Hidden Storehouse represents the enormous range of Peret's career in generous selections from his five best books, published between 1928 and 1947. This first book-length American translation of his work includes an introduction by the distinguished poet and translator Charles Simic.

From the Hidden Storehouse: Selected Poems (Field Translation Series)

Hollaman, Keith

Oberlin College Press

Death to the Pigs: Selected Writings of Benjamin Peret (Atlas Anti-Classics)

Essays & Correspondence

Atlas Pr

The Automatic Muse collects together four remarkable novels from the early days of Surrealism - the 1920's, when the group was experimenting with "automatic writing" and other methods of "forcing inspiration." Despite, or because of, the methods used in their composition these works are remarkable for the differences between them. They are variously mysterious, comic, astonishing, wildly extravagant. Yet they all share a feeling for the marvellous, and a literary style totally unrestrained by the conventions of "literature." Their potent vitality is an ample demonstration of the Surrealist programme and its belief in "the total liberation of man."

The Automatic Muse: Surrealist Novels

LEIRIS, MICHEL

Limbour, Georges

World Literature

A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Péret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from the cinematic antics of Buster Keaton and slapstick animation to the storytelling devices of detective novels, alchemical operations and mythology. The Leg of Lamb consists of 24 delirious narratives, including the novella-length works "And the Breasts Were Dying" and "There Was a Little Bakeress." Péret's adult fairy tales bear equal allegiance to Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade, and present one of the clearest examples of Surrealist humor, in which the boundaries between character and object blur, and where a coat rack, artichoke or a pile of manure is just as likely as Napoléon, El Cid or Pope Pius VII to take on the role of hero and adventurer. Péret himself edited this collection toward the end of his life. Originally published in French in 1957, almost all of the stories in this collection had been written in the 1920s, half of them even preceding André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism. The Leg of Lamb offers not only a highpoint of Surrealist automatic writing, but a key chapter in the genesis of the Surrealist movement.

The Leg of Lamb: Its Life and Works

Wakefield Press

Grand Jeu

Gallimard Education

Anthologie de l'amour sublime

ALBIN MICHEL

1929

ARAGON, Louis

MAN, RAY

Genre Fiction

ALLIA

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