The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time."For many ill-informed people, the name 'Andr Breton' is synonymous with surrealism. They are right. Without Breton, surrealism, even assuming it existed, would have been nothing more than a literary school. With him, it was a way of life."--Raymond Queneau, author of Zazie in the MetroAs leader and chief theoretician of Surrealism, director of myriad publications from the 1920s through the 1960s, poet Andr Breton was a prolific writer of prose. Author of numerous books, essays, and manifestoes, Breton periodically collected his most significant short essays into carefully arranged volumes. His last such collection, Cavalier Perspective, appeared posthumously in 1970; in it, editor Marguerite Bonnet assembled "articles, prefaces, responses to surveys, interviews,"...
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