Literary Origins of Surrealism. a New Mysticism in French Poetry |
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| Author:
| Balakian, Anna |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-91834-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1947 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Describes the relation of surrealism to the social and psychological revolt of the first post war period as revealed by its deep antipathy for bourgeois society in order to show that surrealist writings have contributed no so much to each other as to one general revolution in poetic mysticism and lead to the development of a new philosophy of reality.
Describes the relation of surrealism to the social and psychological revolt of the first post war period as revealed by its deep antipathy for bourgeois society in order to show that surrealist writings have contributed no so much to each other as to one general revolution in poetic mysticism and lead to the development of a new philosophy of reality.