André Breton

Naissance 19 February 1896 · Décès 28 September 1966

Originaire de Tinchebray, Normandy, France · Nationalité : France · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism

Citations

“La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.”
1920'sEn anglais
“Pure psychic automatism, by which one seeks to express, be it verbally, in writing, or in any other manner, (is) the real working of the mind. Dictated by the unconsciousness, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, and free from aesthetic or moral preoccupations.”
1920'sEn anglais
“I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.”
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924En anglais
“A story is told according to which Saint-Pol-Roux, in times gone by, used to have a notice posted on the door of his manor house in Camaret, every evening before he went to sleep, which read: ‘THE POET IS WORKING’.”
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924En anglais
“Oneiric values have definitely won out over the others, and I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot.”
after 1930En anglais

Les livres de André Breton dans l'ordre

Les livres de André Breton dans l'ordre de parution, de Manifeste du surréalisme (1924) à Arcanum 17 (2004).