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Mad Love (L'Amour fou) is surrealist theorist André Breton's case study on love. Using the surrealist style of juxtaposition, Breton explores how love is manifested and expressed in his poetry, in found objects, with his relationships with women, mostly notably with artist Jacqueline Lamba, and in the final chapter, in regards to his relationship with and hopes for the future of his infant daughter.
Best known as the founder of surrealism and its primary theorist, André Breton was also a poet. Published in 1937, Mad Love is partly an ars poetica and partly an autobiographical exploration of Breton's relationship with the artist Jacqueline Lamba. Mad Love was published nine years after the publication of one of Breton's most famous works, Nadja a semi-autobiographical exploration of Breton's interactions and obsessions with a young, mentally-unbalanced woman. Like Nadja, Mad Love provides Breton an opportunity to explore surrealist theory...
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