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Presents a definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism. This title offers an anthology of the writers the author most admires. It discusses the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg and Duchamp, the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, the wry missives of Rimbaud, and the manic paranoia of Dali.

Weaves a tapestry of daily life as seen through a magical perspective. This book combines Breton's autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, and spins a love story in modern literature.

A collection of critical and polemical essays. It features such essays as: Refusal to Inter , Legitimate Defense , Surrealism and the Treatment of Mental Illness , Introduction to the Strange Tales of Achim von Arnim , and Picasso in His Element .

Founder of the Surrealist movement, Andre Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the 20th century's most influential poets. This inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series offers a selection of his poetry along with some of his major prose writings.

In 1941, as the Vichy regime consolidated its control of France, Andre Breton left the country for the island of Martinique. This book is about the island. It also includes nine drawings by the surrealist Andre Masson, a companion of Breton's during his stay on the island.

Written in the months after D-Day in 1944, the author considers issues of love, loss, aggression, war, pacifism and feminism.