Understanding Breton

It’s hard to isolate André Breton from the constellation of which he was the passionate nucleus throughout his life. A man of mad friendship, a poet of mad love, the poet of Surrealism knew only how to conceive his artistic approach collectively.

Fré déric Aribit explores or rediscovers the atypical career of one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature, between his attempted poetic coup d’état, his major manifestos and his artistic experiments.

 

A Doctor of Letters, Frédéric Aribit has published an essay entitled André Breton, Georges Bataille. Le vif du sujet (L’Écarlate, 2012) and a novel, Trois langues dans ma bouche (Belfond, 2015).

Eva Niollet is a graduate of the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Nice and Paris. She has exhibited her work in a number of venues and published her texts and drawings in various magazines.