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New York:: Paragon House,, 1993.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The closest Andre Breton has ever came to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the Surrealists' ideological debate with communism and their opposition to Stalin.

Syracuse::: Syracuse University Press,,, 1976... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The author examines the emergence of surrealism through the nineteenth century heritage of romanticism and naturalism and assesses the works of Apollinaire and analyzes Andre Breton's 1924 Manifestoe of Surrealism. Matthew's study of Breton's Anthology of Black Humor and the writings of the leading Belgian surrealist Paul Nouge reflects the use of surrealism as a language of revolt. Matthew' also investigates the subversive poetics of surrealism by examining surrealist attitudes toward the Marquis de Sade and commenting on their political position.