Magnetic Fields (Nyrb Poets) - Softcover
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Product DescriptionAn indispensible classic of French poetry this is a new translation of Breton and Soupaults experiment with automatic writing and also the first known work of literary surrealismIn the spring of 1919 two young men Andr Breton and Philippe Soupault both in a state of shock after World War I embarked on an experiment Sick of the literary cultivation of voice sick of the wellwritten they wanted to unleash the power of the word and to create a new morality to replace the prevailing morality the source of all our trials and tribulations They had a plan They would write for a week on every day of the week and they would write fast as fast as possible in complete secrecy When the week was over the writing would be done No touching upThis was how The Magnetic Fields the first sustained exercise in automatic writing came to be Charlotte Mandells brilliant new translation reveals a key work of twentiethcentury literatureReviewWith distance a sort of unity has established itself and The Magnetic Fields have become the work of a single author with two heads This double gaze has made it possible as nothing else would for Philippe Soupault and Andr Breton to push forward on the path where no one had preceded them into these shadows where they were both speaking aloud Louis AragonFantastic disconnected but vivid and poetic as though Breton and Soupault were seeing sea life at the bottom of the oceans floor very few of us have the intensity of spirit to live with that sense of life Kimberly LyonsThe Magnetic Fields opened the verbal floodgates for the writers aligned first with Dada and then with Surrealism Breton Soupault Paul Eluard Louis Aragon Robert Desnos Benjamin Peret Christopher Merrill Los Angeles TimesBreton and Soupault ushered a freshly new phenomenon of writing into being Theirs remains the key 20th century collaboration Going forward there was acknowledged precedent for the validity of jointly recording words onto the page as they come whether borrowed imagined or otherwise summoned forth from whatever depths Patrick James Dunagan PeriodicitiesAbout the AuthorAndr Breton 18961966 was a writer poet and cofounder of the surrealist movement A student of psychiatry and a devout Marxist Breton saw surrealism as the ultimate means to liberation both personal and politicalPhilippe Soupault 18971990 was a cofounder of the surrealist movement alongside Andr Breton Soupault left surrealism behind following political disagreements with Breton remaining a lifelong writerCharlotte Mandell is a translator of French literature She has published numerous translations of writers including Jean Genet Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert She has been awarded a translation prize from the Modern Language Association and the National Translation Award in Prose She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. Seller Inventory # BKZN9781681374604
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the spring of 1919, two young men, Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault, one a student of law and the other of medicine, both in a state of moral shock after the carnage of the First World War, both driven to revolutionize literature and the world, embarked on an experiment in writing. Sick of the literary cultivation of an individual voice, sick of the "well-written", they wanted to unleash the power of the word as such, the better to create "a new morality" that would stand in place of "the prevailing morality, the source of all our trials and tribulations." They gave themselves some rules. They would write over the course of a week; they would write for only so much time on each day of the week; they would write fast and then faster. When the week was over, the writing would be over, and they would not go back to it or clean it up in any way. Finally, the project must proceed in perfect secrecy. They must not tell anyone what they were up to.This was how The Magnetic Fields, the first sustained exercise in automatic writing as a form of literary composition, came to be. By the end of Breton and Soupault's weeklong labor, Breton feared he was going mad, and the chapters of the book, the product of their daily sessions, astonished and confounded both writers. What they had wrought was full of weird comedy and fraught with uncertainty and even terror. It was in touch with primal things. "The end of everything" was the title of the book's gnomic final section, and yet Breton had arrived at a new beginning. The Magnetic Fields, their fellow surrealist Louis Aragon would later say, "was the moment at the dawn of the twentieth centry on which the entire history of writing pivots."Charlotte Mandell's brilliant new translation of The Magnetic Fields, here accompanied by the original French, is the first in over 30 years.An indispensible classic of French poetry, this is a new translation of Breton and Soupault's experiment with automatic writing, and also the first known work of literary surrealism.In the spring of 1919, two young men, Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault, both in a state of shock after World War I, embarked on an experiment. Sick of the literary cultivation of "voice," sick of the "well-written," they wanted to unleash the power of the word and to create "a new morality" to replace "the prevailing morality, the source of all our trials and tribulations." They had a plan. They would write for a week on every day of the week and they would write fast, as fast as possible, in complete secrecy. When the week was over, the writing would be done. No touching up.This was how The Magnetic Fields, the first sustained exercise in automatic writing, came to be. Charlotte Mandell's brilliant new translation reveals a key work of twentieth-century literature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781681374604
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Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Product DescriptionAn indispensible classic of French poetry, this is a new translation of Breton and Soupault's experiment with automatic writing, and also the first known work of literary surrealism.In the spring of 1919, two young men, André Breton and Philippe Soupault, both in a state of shock after World War I, embarked on an experiment. Sick of the literary cultivation of "voice," sick of the "well-written," they wanted to unleash the power of the word and to create "a new morality" to replace "the prevailing morality, the source of all our trials and tribulations." They had a plan. They would write for a week on every day of the week and they would write fast, as fast as possible, in complete secrecy. When the week was over, the writing would be done. No touching up.This was how The Magnetic Fields, the first sustained exercise in automatic writing, came to be. Charlotte Mandell's brilliant new translation reveals a key work of twentieth-century literature.Review"With distance, a sort of unity has established itself, and The Magnetic Fields have become the work of a single author with two heads. This double gaze has made it possible, as nothing else would, for Philippe Soupault and André Breton to push forward on the path where no one had preceded them, into these shadows where they were both speaking aloud." -Louis Aragon"Fantastic, disconnected but vivid and poetic as though Breton and Soupault were seeing sea life at the bottom of the ocean's floor: very few of us have the intensity of spirit to live with that sense of life." -Kimberly Lyons"The Magnetic Fields opened the verbal floodgates for the writers aligned first with Dada and then with Surrealism: Breton, Soupault, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Benjamin Peret." -Christopher Merrill, Los Angeles Times"Breton and Soupault ushered a freshly new phenomenon of writing into being. Theirs remains the key 20th century collaboration. . . Going forward there was acknowledged precedent for the validity of jointly recording words onto the page as they come, whether borrowed, imagined or otherwise summoned forth from whatever depths." -Patrick James Dunagan, PeriodicitiesAbout the AuthorAndré Breton (1896-1966) was a writer, poet, and co-founder of the surrealist movement. A student of psychiatry and a devout Marxist, Breton saw surrealism as the ultimate means to liberation both personal and political.Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) was a co-founder of the surrealist movement alongside André Breton. Soupault left surrealism behind following political disagreements with Breton, remaining a lifelong writer.Charlotte Mandell is a translator of French literature. She has published numerous translations of writers including Jean Genet, Guy de Maupassant, and Gustave Flaubert. She has been awarded a translation prize from the Modern Language Association and the National Translation Award in Prose. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. Seller Inventory # BKZN9781681374604
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