Capital of Pain, is considered one of the key texts of surrealism. This is the first new translation into English of this work in over 30 years and the only edition available in the English language. This edition presents the text in its entirety in a bil
Now back in print, this collection of poems by one of the most popular and best-loved poets in France, whose famous poem "Liberte" was dropped on French towns by the RAF during World War II. This bilingual edition contains a representative selection of po
This book collects together the two most vital "automatic" texts of Surrealism -- The Magnetic Fields (1919) and The Immaculate Conception (1930) -- with Breton's prefatory essay "The Automatic Message" which relates this technique to the underlying conce
