Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning (Atlas

Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning (Atlas Anti-classic)

Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsairâ€™s pursuit of the siren Louise Lame: these are the essential ingredients of Liberty or Love!, a masterpiece of early Surrealism written by Robert Desnos (1900â€“1945) and first published in 1924 to immediate acclaim. Characters appear and disappear at whim; they walk underwater and accept the most astounding coincidences with calm nonchalance. This crown jewel of Surrealist eroticism is part hymn to the erotic and part adventure story illumined by the shades of LautrÃ©amont, Jack the Ripper and Sade. Desnos was famously lauded by AndrÃ© Breton--in his First Manifesto of Surrealism--for having come â€œclosest to the Surrealist truth,â€ and his novel is a dream at once violent and tender--the perfect embodiment, in fact, of the Surrealist spirit: joyful and despairing, and effortlessly scandalous. This new hardback edition also includes Mourning for Mourning, Desnosâ€™ first book--his own selection of his early stories from the â€œperiod of sleeping fitsâ€ and automatic writing.
Country USA
Brand Atlas Press LLC
Manufacturer Atlas Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781900565455
ReleaseDate 2013-03-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781900565455

Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning (Atlas Anti-classic)