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by: Benjamin Peret
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 841.912
EAN: 9780803287211
ISBN: 0803287216
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 219
Publication Date: December 01, 1988
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Sales Rank: 1753201
Studio: University of Nebraska Press
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One of the founders of surrealism, Benjamin Péret lived a life resistant to any aesthetic or political compromise. Though he was the writer most admired within the surrealist group itself, very little of his work has been previously translated. This, the first authorized collection, will assemble his finest work—his novel, Death to Pigs and to the Field of Glory, poems, polemical and critical writings, and unclassifiable works like 'Natural History' and 'The Round-the-World Calendar of Tolerable Inventions.'
This volume will also include the first detailed biography of Péret to appear in English, based on sources only recently brought to light. Octavio Paz has described Péret's writings as 'among the most original and most savage of our era.' Breton wrote, 'Humor here gushes from its source.'
At last, the source is available in English.
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Rating: - Good for a student of surrealism, but not much else.
From its creation Andre Breton insisted surrealism is a revolution, not a literary or art movement. Looking at the paintings and reading the books of the most notorious of the surrealists I can see their playful anti-establishment views, but the word revolution brings to mind the stereotypical Che Guevara loving guerilla fighter or half-frozen early Americans huddled around George Washington, not any surrealist. Nothing I have read has really shocked me, until I read Death to the Pigs and ... Read More
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