Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel
10 best books like Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel (Alfred Jarry): Maldoror and the Complete Works, Aurélia and Other Writings, Approximate Man and Other Writings, Collected Poems, Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology, Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984, Paris Peasant, My Body and I, The Hundred Headless Woman, Locus Solus
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,...
Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled -bohemians, - Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue...
| Author | Tristan Tzara |
| ISBN | 0976844915 |
This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English language source for a complete version of Tzara's epic Approximate Man now widely regarded as the poetic masterpiece of Surrealism. Included is a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an...
| 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 | André Breton |
| ISBN | 0976844923 |
Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the English language. Here, in a bilingual French-English...
| Author | Henri Michaux |
| ISBN | 0520212290 |
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux “genius,” and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work “is without equal in the literature of our time.”...
| 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 | René Crevel |
| ISBN | 0974968099 |
In My Body and I (Mon Corps et Moi, 1925), René Crevel attempts to trace with words the geography of a being. Exploring the tension between body and spirit, Crevel’s meditation is a vivid personal journey through illusion and disillusion, secret desire, memory, the possibility and impossibility...
| Author | Max Ernst |
| ISBN | 0807610240 |
This is German artist Max Ernst's collage-novel. He beckons us to provide our own personal interpretation to the captions and surreal collages he constructed from old picture books and journal so that we create our own version of the story. I did exactly that – and created my own micro fiction...
| Author | Raymond Roussel |
| ISBN | 0714507342 |
Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century.
Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous...
Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life
| Author | Alastair Brotchie |
| ISBN | 0262016192 |
When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Parisbut this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures of the artistic avant-garde....
Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist
| Author | Antonin Artaud |
| ISBN | 0971457808 |
Translated into English for the first time, this novelized biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously Artaud's most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, Heliogabalus...
'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide
| Author | Andrew Hugill |
| ISBN | 0262017792 |
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, 'pataphysics--the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions--has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting...
| Author | Raymond Queneau |
| ISBN | 0811204839 |
Le Vol d'Icare est le dernier roman de Raymond Queneau, paru en 1968. Huber, un auteur à partir de 1895, crée un roman dont le personnage principal se nomme Icare. Ce dernier sort de son livre, emporté par un coup de vent et se retrouve perdu dans Paris. Huber Luber fait alors appel à un détective privé,...
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 0882680765 |
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing...
The Seventh Horse And Other Tales
| Author | Leonora Carrington |
| ISBN | 0525483845 |
This collection of Carrington's fiction, the most comprehensive so far, includes a novella and 18 short stories written between the late 1930s and the early '70s in French, Spanish and English. All these tales take place in fantastic, eerie landscapes and are narrated in surreal, stylized voices....
| Author | René Daumal |
| ISBN | 0715633791 |
In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory...
