Arcanum 17 (Green Integer)
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Considered radical at the time, today Breton’s ideas seem almost prescient, yet breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. André Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Percé Rock—its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty—as his central metaphor, Breton considers issues of love and loss, aggression and war, pacifism, feminism and the occult, in a book that is part prose and part poetry,
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Manufacturer: Green Integer
Release date: 1 April 2004
ISBN-10 : 1931243271 | ISBN-13: 9781931243278
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Release date: 1 April 2004
ISBN-10 : 1931243271 | ISBN-13: 9781931243278
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