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Andre Breton: Selections by Andre Breton 9780520239548
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nadja by Andre Breton
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.95NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, NADJA... -
Nadja by Andre Breton 9780802150264
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150264Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint < -
Break of Day by Andre Breton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is Andre Breton's second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages,... -
Communicating Vessels by Andre Breton
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in... -
Magnetic Fields by Andre Breton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374604Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
Nadja by Andre Breton 9788437615493
Booksplease Price: €18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437615493Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Lost Steps by Andre Breton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andre Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was... -
Mad Love by Andre Breton
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.93Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the... -
Free Rein by Andre Breton 9780803212411
Booksplease Price: €63.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Andre Breton
RRP: €16.07Booksplease Price: €13.15Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it... -
In the Gold of Time by Claudie Gallay
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Set between Normandy and Arizona, In the Gold of Time is a seductive tale of silences and dark, half-revealed secrets, and a haunting elegy for innocence lost in a lost world. A young father holidays... -
Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roche
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Based on a real-life love triangle and later made into Francois Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roche's Jules et Jim is a paean to youth set in free-spirited Paris before the First... -
The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Weaving together the historical and the imagined, China Mieville's The Last Days of New Paris is a surreal and extraordinary work, from the author of The City & The City.1941. In the chaos of wartime... -
Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry by Christophe Wall-Romana 9780823245482
Booksplease Price: €62.03Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to... -
How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art Morgan Falconer 9781324123330
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.65"Art has poisoned our life", proclaimed De Stijl co-founder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of the First World War, from Paris to... -
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism Georges Bataille 9781804296592
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an... -
Surrealism and Operative Alchemy: The Secret Language at the Origins of the Surrealist Movement Patrick Lepetit 9798888501672
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.13Discover the links between European surrealism and the alchemical tradition* Draws on rare primary documents to reveal the connections between surrealism, 20th century alchemy, and 19th century... -
Betrayal of the Mind: The Surreal Life of Unica Zürn Céline Wagner 9781643375953
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.08A rare English-language work tracing the life and fate of noted surrealist Unica Zurn.ZURN, UNICA [zyrn ynika]. f. n. - b. 1916; in Berlin-Grunewald - 1. Born to a middleclass family, a young woman... -
Outrageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc 9781788162746
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07'A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war - an outrageous voyage from the past that speaks eloquently to our present' Deborah Levy March 1941. A converted... -
Oil and Water: The Paintings of Brian J. Haberlin by Brian J Haberlin 9781534331815
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €39.35OIL & WATER is the definitive collection of fine art paintings by award-winning artist Brian J. Haberlin. Known worldwide for his work in the comic book industry, Haberlin has turned his boundless... -
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.08A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World... -
The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings by Mary Ann Caws 9780811227070
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.50Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andre Breton,... -
Maldoror and Poems by Comte de Lautreamont
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.65Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and... -
Alchemy of a Blackbird: A Novel by Claire McMillan 9781668006566
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.41For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a "beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship" (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) based on the true story of the... -
Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Collected Poems by Robert Desnos 9781906570699
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.29This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the... -
With and Against: the Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.66No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the cliches about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle,"... -
Initiatic Eroticism: And Other Occult Writings from La FleChe by Maria de Naglowska 9781594774799
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73From October 1930 to January 1935, Maria de Naglowska--Russian mystic, esoteric high priestess, and self-styled "Satanic Woman" of 1930s Paris--published 20 issues of her newspaper, La Fleche, which... -
Surrealism by Cathrin Klingsoehr-Leroy 9783836506731
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.80With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the... -
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter 9780062431899
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.13In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest... -
My Last Breath by Luis Bunuel
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Bunuel's method is free from all artifice, and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in... -
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty Alexandre Kojeve 9781644230817
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €9.52A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,"... -
Pablo Picasso: Volume 74 by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.29In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Pablo Picasso, one of the world's greatest artists in the 20th... -
A Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne 9781900564663
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €8.22Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to... -
Les Chimeres by Gerard de Nerval 9781848614031
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Nerval is one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. His great sonnet cycle, Les Chimeres, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate... -
Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint my Reality' by Christina Burrus
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. She fell victim to polio at the age of six, and was then seriously hurt in a bus accident at eighteen, resulting in... -
Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille by Professor Rosemary Sullivan 9780060732516
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060732516Author Professor Rosemary SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496 -
Artaud 1937 Apocalypse - Letters from Ireland August to 21 September 1937 Antonin Artaud 9783035801538
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €9.09Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the... -
Capitalism, a Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination Jon Greenaway 9781914420887
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity. Capitalism is... -
Jean Paul Riopelle - The Artist's Materials . Corbeil 9781606060865
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.58This is the first full-length English language study of one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists...