Nadja - Softcover

Breton, André

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802150268 ISBN 13: 9780802150264

Publisher: Grove Press, 1994

Synopsis

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.

The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Andre Breton, poet and writer, was the founder of the Surrealist movement in France, and is remembered as being its heart and soul. He died in 1966.Mark Polizzotti is a writer and translator, and also works in an editorial capacity for David Godine Publishers in the US.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802150268
• ISBN 13: 9780802150264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160