FREE REIN (LA CLÉ DES CHAMPS) by André Breton, translated by Michel Parmentier and Jacqueline D'Ambroise (REVIEW COPY)

University of Nebraska Press, 1996, First edition, 293 pp., 6 1/2" X 9 1/2", Hardcover

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Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton’s preoccupations, his abiding faith in the early principles of surrealism, and the changing orientations, in light of crucial events of those years, of the surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.