Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vache's War Letters and Other Writings - Brossura

Rosemont, Franklin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0882863215 ISBN 13: 9780882863214

Casa editrice: Charles H Kerr Pub Co, 2007

Riassunto

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Biography. Conscripted into the French Army in World War One, Jacques Vache soon became not only the unsurpassed champion of "Desertion from Within," but also the master of "Disservice with Diligence." His post-humous slim book, War Letters (1919)--included in the present volume--is a classic of surrealist anti-militarism and subversion. Renowned as the Inventor of Umour (Humour without the H), Vache was--along with Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont--the major inspirer of Andre Breton and the surrealist revolution. The first of its kind in English, this book chronicles Vache's boundless originality, creative nonconformity, revolutionary morality (or umoral-ity), and his all-out turn-the-world-upside-down hilarity. Welcomed by Andre Breton himself into the Paris Surrealist Group in 1966, Franklin Rosemont took part in the Paris group's activities for several months and went on to co-organize the Chicago Surrealist Group later that year. Rosemont (1943-2009) died earlier this year.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Charles H Kerr Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0882863215
• ISBN 13: 9780882863214
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 388
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