L'Invention du surréalisme. Des champs magnétiques à Nadja. arts including the Loch Ness Monster

including the Loch Ness Monster and Felix the Cat

unique atmosphere

and even of a culture

His personal research first took him to India in the footsteps of Henri Cartier-Bresson

in their apparent obviousness

L'Invention du surréalisme. Des champs magnétiques à Nadja. arts including the Loch Ness MonsterIn 1918, a group of young poets traumatized by the Great War explored previously unknown reaches of the psyche and creativity. This is the Surrealism movement, whose birth and early years are traced in this book. The year 2020 marks the centenary of the publication of Les Champs magntiques, the "first purely Surrealist work" and a major turning point in the field of literary creation. This text by Andr Breton and Philippe Soupault marks the birth of