Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti
Anthology of Black Humor
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André Breton; translated from the French and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti
808.87
PN6153 .B6713 1997 PN6153.B6713 1997
Includes bibliographical references.
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San Francisco, USA, Monroe, USA, California, 1997
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City Lights Books, Distributed by Subterranean Co.
This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The *Anthology of Black Humor* are already well known to American readers—Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton’s selections are often surprising)—many others are sure to come as a revelation.

The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia of Dali, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur Craven to the offhand hilarity of Apollinaire at his most spontaneous. For each of the forty-five authors included, Breton has provided an enlightening biographical and critical preface, situating both the writer and the work in the context of black humor—a partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as "a superior revolt of the mind."
Anthology of Black Humor
1997
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Anthology of Black Humor
André Breton; translated from the French and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti
San Francisco, USA, Monroe, USA, California, 1997
City Lights Books, Distributed by Subterranean Co.
City Lights Books, Distributed by Subterranean Co. 

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1997