Aurélia and Other Writings
10 best books like Aurélia and Other Writings (Gérard de Nerval): Maldoror and the Complete Works, Selected Poems, Last Love Poems, How I Wrote Certain of My Books, Last Nights of Paris, Collected Poems, Mouchette, Nights as Day, Days as Night, The Poet Assassinated, Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos
Maldoror and the Complete Works
| Author | Comte de Lautréamont |
Andre Breton described Maldoror as -the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.- Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870). Lautreamont bewildered his contemporaries,...
| Author | Francis Ponge |
| ISBN | 0916390586 |
POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE
I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"
Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
| Author | Paul Éluard |
| ISBN | 0976844931 |
Man Ray – Nusch Éluard - 1934 | Trasdós - http://ow.ly/OikpP
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Y tu boca que enmudece puede probar lo imposible.
Amar. Amar para olvidar que se amó. Peregrino de emociones, Paul Éluard ofrece su palabra como testimonio de sentimiento. También...
| Author | Raymond Roussel |
| ISBN | 1878972146 |
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists and famously influenced the composition...
| Author | Philippe Soupault |
| ISBN | 1878972057 |
Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of Paris is related to Surrealist novels such as Nadja and Paris Peasant, but also to the American expatriate...
| Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
| ISBN | 0520081889 |
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valéry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties...
| Author | Georges Bernanos |
| ISBN | 1590171519 |
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art.
“Nothing but a little savage” is how the village school-teacher...
French surreal fiction writer Michel Leiris in 1922.
Nights as Day, Days as Night - More than one hundred entries in this book, the author's dream journal, composed over a span of forty years. Here is the very first entry: "In front of a crowd of gawking spectators - of whom I am one - a series...
| Author | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| ISBN | 1878972294 |
Apollinaire was Modernism's first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in World War I, Apollinaire assembled the fragments of a tragicomic, mock-epic and occasionally obscene autobiography-a-clef:...
Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos
| Author | Robert Desnos |
| ISBN | 0976844990 |
Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was one of the primary poets and writers of the Surrealist movement of the years 1924-1930. He wrote, and collaboratively wrote, many influential and celebrated books. Besides poetry, Desnos also wrote on a wide range of subjects from film texts and criticism to novels....
| Author | Blaise Cendrars |
| ISBN | 0520065808 |
Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry—from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor—offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.
Here, for the first...
| Author | Paul Valéry |
| ISBN | 0811202135 |
It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune Parque"; then ranges through Valéry's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature, philosophy, and painting. It concludes with excerpts...
| Author | Louis Aragon |
| ISBN | 1878972103 |
Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration...
| Author | Alfred Jarry |
| ISBN | 1900565250 |
An anthology of previously untranslated texts by Alfred Jarry beginning with his first work, Black Minutes of Memorial Sand. Included are theoretical texts, aberrant journalism, and highly-wrought Symbolist poems; a practical guide to building a time machine; and the bizarre dramatic buffoonery...
Watchfiends and Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period
| Author | Antonin Artaud |
| ISBN | 1878972189 |
From the thin line between genius and madness that Artaud had often walked enigmatically, he appears to have left the line completely during this period, in the process of becoming "suicided by society", meditating on alchemy, and myth, Nerval's hanging himself by street lamp being more than just...
| Author | Marcel Schwob |
| ISBN | 0984115587 |
When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales...
The Automatic Message: The Magnetic Fields / The Immaculate Conception
| Author | André Breton |
| ISBN | 0947757996 |
I give this work five not on its specific content but for the ideas behind it. It's of course a historic set of works, it shows off the automatic and collaborative writing of the surrealists. It puts into action the ideas Breton wanted to see happen in writing.
Now is it gibberish? Yes a lot of it seems...
| Author | Julien Gracq |
| ISBN | 1901285146 |
The castle is the man: austere, remote, full of a blinding light. The two visitors are the man: the first, a cynic and manipulator, a friend and a foe; the second, a seeker and a secret-keeper, a lover and a lure. The forest is the man: all paths lead back to him; all paths are the same. The murderer is the man:...
Hebdomeros: With Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings
| Author | Giorgio de Chirico |
| ISBN | 1878972065 |
The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction," noting that de Chirico "invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of...
