ANDRE BRETON MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM PDF

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Understand that I am not condemning lack of originality for its lack of originality. Manifesto of Surrealism Indeed that reflects my sole legitimate aspiration. With a pencil and white sheet of paper to hand, I could easily trace their outlines. It is somewhat of a problem to form an opinion about the next sentence; it doubtless partakes both of our conscious activity and of the other, if one agrees that the fact of having written the first entails a minimum of perception.

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I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought.

It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled. Accessed Bretno 20, In the very short dialogue that I concocted above between the doctor and the madman, it was in fact the madman who got the better of the manifeto. And it only takes a feather for me to die laughing.

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I was thinking that video games, music, the internet, modernism and postmodern literature, and much of TV and film had incorporated surrealism but I was wrong. Fear, the attraction of the unusual, chance, the taste for things extravagant are all devices which we can always call upon without fear of deception. It paces back and forth in a cage from which it is more and more difficult to make it emerge.

It is pointless to add that experience itself has found itself increasingly circumscribed. It was most certainly my previous predispositions which decided the matter.

The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent. Thus the analysis of the mysterious effects and special pleasures it can produce — in many respects Surrealism occurs as a new vice which does not necessarily seem to be restricted to the happy few; like hashish, it has the ability to satisfy all manner of tastes — such an analysis has to be included in the present study.

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Breton, Andre (–) – First Manifesto of Surrealism

In the stream there is a song that flows or: I am in no hurry to comprehend myself Enough! To speak, to read a letter presents little real difficulty to him, provided that, in so doing, he does not set a goal beyond the average, that is, provided he limits himself to conversing for the pleasure of conversing with someone.

What I most enjoy contemplating about a dream is everything that sinks back below the surface in a waking state, everything I have forgotten about my activities in the course of the preceding day, dark foliage, stupid branches.

Nothing can be compared to their vacuity; it is nothing but the superimposition of images from a catalogue, the author employs them more and more readily, he seizes the opportunity to slip me postcards, he tries to make me fall in step with him in public places: Columbus ought to have taken madmen with him to discover America. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of circumstances, so that is seems imperfect; and their consequences are also equally imperfect.

Breton argues there is no reason to make ordinary boring art that reflects reality and doing so would be to push away the subconscious which is what drives us in our everyday lives.

Here are two passages by Nerval which seem particularly significant in this regard: What reason, I ask, a reason so much greater than that other, confers the natural quality on dream, makes me welcome unreservedly a host of episodes whose strangeness would confound me as I write?

Farewell to absurd choice, dreams of the abyss, rivalries, endless patience, the flight of the seasons, the artificial ordering of ideas, the balustrade of danger, the time for everything!

Apr 18, Pierre E. Feel free to copy this virtual document and distribute it as you wish. Everyone knows, in fact, that the mad owe their incarceration to a number of legally reprehensible actions, and that were it not for those actions, their liberty or what we see as their liberty would not be at risk. Is it not incumbent upon us, who are already living off it, to try and impose what we hold to be our case for further inquiry?

I believe in the virtue of birds. I am only apart from what resembles you, on the high seas, where the bird called Heartbreak gives its cry that raises the pommels of ice of which the stars of day are the broken guard. The aims of logic, in contrast, escape us.

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Some may say to me that the parallel is not very encouraging. Memory alone arrogates to itself the right to excerpt from dreams, to ignore the transitions, and to depict for us rather a series of dreams than the dream itself.

In those appurtenances that make us smile, there is forever revealed an incurable human restlessness, and that is why I take them into consideration, why I judge them inseparable from certain products of genius, which are painfully affected by them more than others. It had seemed to me, and still does — the way in which the phrase about the man cut in two had come to me is an indication of it — that the speed of thought is no greater than the speed of speech, and that thought does not necessarily defy language, nor anxre the fast-moving pen.

They seem to be, up to the present time, the only ones, and there would be no ambiguity about it were it not for the case of Isidore Ducasse, about whom I lack information.

Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your will: What is true for the publication of a book will also hold true breon a whole host of other acts, as soon as surrealist methods begin to enjoy widespread favour. Lovely as the law of arrested development of the breast in adults whose propensity to growth is not in proportion to the quantity of molecules the organism assimilates.

The furniture, of yellow wood, was all quite old. If one is going to all that trouble, one might as well stop off somewhere else. The fabric of adorable improbabilities must be made a trifle more subtle the older we grow, and we are still at the age of waiting for this kind of spider Do not forget to make anndre arrangements for your last will and testament: You may contact the transcriber at any time by writing to: This world is only relatively-speaking in tune with thought, and incidents of this kind are only episodes, till now the most notable, in a war of independence in which I have the glory of participating.

Ceci sans compter les notes de bas de page, d’une longueur proprement interminable.

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