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André Breton

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Nadja Summary

Nadja is a surrealist novel written by French writer Andre Breton and published in 1928. The novel is an account of the author's relationship with a woman named Nadja, over a period of ten days. The narrator, Andre Breton, believes that knowing who he is may only be determined by knowing whom he "haunts." Breton also places great importance on coincidences. The Theatre Moderne is one of Andre Breton's favorite theaters because...

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Andr Breton Biographies (3)

André Breton

474 words, approx. 2 pages

The French writer André Breton (1896-1966) was the leader of the surrealist movement, which was the most important force in French poetry in the 1920s and 1930s.André Breton was born in ... Read more

Andre Breton

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André Breton, a twentieth-century French poet and essayist, also a novelist and founder and theoretician of the surrealist movement, was born in Tinchebray, Normandy, on 19 February 1896, died ... Read more

Andre Breton

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André Breton is widely known as the founder and prominent figure of the Surrealist movement in France. His manifestos and essays, including the extended novelistic essay Nadja (1928; translated... Read more

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