Andre Breton
French poet and theorist who was the founder and principal theorist of surrealism. His Surrealist Manifesto and the automatic writing in Magnetic Fields defined the movement.
Works
- Surrealist ManifestoManifesto declaring surrealism's principles of liberation and unconscious expression
- Magnetic FieldsCollaborative automatic writing experiment exploring unconscious creative expression
- NadjaNovel narrating obsession, desire, and surrealist encounter in Paris
- Mad LovePoetry and prose celebrating desire, chance, and transformative love
- Collected PoemsSurrealist poems blending dream imagery, desire, and revolutionary thought