Author

Contributions

  • Polizzotti, Mark. - Contributor

Publication

1996 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

33,250 words, Guess

Page Count

133 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2350629
  • Goodreads270876

Classifications

  • DDC844/.912
  • LCCPQ2603.R35 P313 1996

Alternate Titles

  • Pas perdus

Description

The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andre Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European) intellectual life. They chronicle his tumultuous passage through the Dada movement, proclaim his explosive views on Modernism and its heroes, and herald the emergence of Surrealism itself. Along the way, we are given Breton's serious commentaries on his Modernist predecessors, Guillaume Apollinaire and Alfred Jarry, followed by his not-so-serious Dada manifestoes.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • French modernist library

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