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Arcanum 17

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Arcanum 17

Contributors:

By (Author) Andre Breton

ISBN:

9781931243278

Publisher:

Green Integer

Imprint:

Green Integer

Publication Date:

15th April 2004

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

841.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

192

Weight:

151g

Description

Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Perce Rock - its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty - as his central metaphor, Breton considers issues of love, loss, aggression, war, pacifism and feminism.

Author Bio

Breton is the great French writer, the founder of Surrealism.

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