Nadja
Breton spent ten days with a woman in Paris in 1928 and wrote it up with photographs of the places, inventing surrealist prose and documenting an obsession.
Over ten days in 1928 Breton followed a woman through Paris, and wrote the encounter up with photographs of the cafes, statues and hotel fronts where it happened. The result founded surrealist prose and reads closer to a documentary of obsession than to a novel. It ends badly, and Breton is candid that he was more interested in the pattern than the person.
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Tyler Cowen
It is short, and fun enough to read. But one learns most books from the past are not masterpieces, and that surrealism as a movement — most of all in painting — was more important than the literary outputs of surrealism.
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