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Andre Breton
(1896 - 1966)

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Andre Breton was born at Tinchebray (Orne) in 1896. Initially he began training in medicine. However, he soon realised that it would be poetry which would be his true vocation. His early influences tended towards the path of symbolism however with his call up for the first world war their arrived a .. .. more >>

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"Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads."
André Breton (1896-1966), French Surrealist. "Lâchez tout!" Les Pas Perdus (1924).

"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession."
André Breton (1896-1966), French surrealist. Mad Love, ch. 3 (1937, trans. 1987).

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André Breton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1959, Andre Breton organized an exhibit in Spain to celebrate the Fortieth Anniversary of Surrealism called the Homage to Surrealism which exhibited ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Breton

André Breton
Biography of the French surrealist and discussion of his works.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/abreton.htm

André Breton Page
Andre Breton page,including biography, bibliography, photographs and exhibition of 'Poem-Objects' created by Breton.
http://studiocleo.com/librarie/breton/bretonpage.html

Manifesto of Surrealism
ANDRÉ BRETON. (1924). So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in ...... (ANDRÉ BRETON). A little to the left, in my firmament foretold, ...
http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm

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