Mad Love Summary
André Breton

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Mad Love (L'Amour fou) is surrealist theorist André Breton's case study on love. Using the surrealist style of juxtaposition, Breton explores how love is manifested and expressed in his poetry, in found objects, with his relationships with women, mostly notably with artist Jacqueline Lamba, and in the final chapter, in regards to his relationship with and hopes for the future of his infant daughter.

Best known as the founder of surrealism...

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Andr Breton Biographies (3)

André Breton

474 words, approx. 2 pages

The French writer André Breton (1896-1966) was the leader of the surrealist movement, which was the most important force in French poetry in the 1920s and 1930s.André Breton was born in ... Read more

Andre Breton

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André Breton, a twentieth-century French poet and essayist, also a novelist and founder and theoretician of the surrealist movement, was born in Tinchebray, Normandy, on 19 February 1896, died ... Read more

Andre Breton

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André Breton is widely known as the founder and prominent figure of the Surrealist movement in France. His manifestos and essays, including the extended novelistic essay Nadja (1928; translated... Read more

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