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. Februar 1896 in Tinchebray in der Normandie, gestorben am 28. 1940 emigrierte Breton in die USA, wo er seine Ideen weiter propagierte. ..
Earthlight stands as an exciting opportunity for American readers to experience the poetic revolution of Breton's Surrealism, and to be electrified by his amazing, hallucinatory imagery. . Bill Zavatsky's and Zack Rogow's excellent translation of Breton's masterwork, Earthlight (Clair de terre), introduces the English-language audience to the delights--and complexities--of Breton's poetry. Earthlight stands as an exciting opportunity for American readers to experience the poetic revolution of Breton's Surrealism, and to be electrified by his amazing, hallucinatory imagery. .
. At the beginning of World War I, he was a student of medicine and particularly interested in psychiatry. When Tristan Tzara came to Paris from Zuerich in 1916, Breton joined the Paris DaDa movement together with his friends Paul Eluard and Phillipe Soupalt. Breton played an important part in the earlier DaDa publications in Paris. In 1921 he broke with Tzara and the Parisian dadaists.
In the 1940s and 1950s Breton wrote essays and collections of poems, among them ARCANE 17 (1945), a statement of love. . Breton studied medicine and later psychiatry, and met also in 1921 Freud in Vienna. He never qualified but during World War I he served in the neurological ward and made some attepts to use Freudian methods to prychoanalyze his patients. Very important for his literary work was his wartime meetings with Apollinaire.

A good breton site: http://www.kalin.lm.com/breton.html

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