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André Breton


Born
in Tinchebray, Orne, Normandy, France
February 19, 1896

Died
September 28, 1966

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Arts & Photography

Influences
Tristan Tzara, Alfred Jarry, Lautréamont, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Fre ...more


After World War I, French poet and literary theorist André Breton began to link at first with Dadaism but broke with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism in 1924.

People best know this theorist as the principal founder. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme), in which he defined this "pure psychic automatism."

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Average rating: 3.67 · 21,782 ratings · 1,905 reviews · 278 distinct works • Similar authors
Nadja
3.54 avg rating — 12,836 ratings — published 1928 — 122 editions
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Manifestoes of Surrealism
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3.83 avg rating — 3,251 ratings — published 1924 — 114 editions
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Mad Love
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3.71 avg rating — 1,402 ratings — published 1937 — 5 editions
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The Magnetic Fields
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3.88 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1920 — 6 editions
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Anthology of Black Humor
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3.81 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 1940 — 9 editions
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Poems of André Breton: A B...
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Earthlight
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1923 — 27 editions
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Arcanum 17
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3.42 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1945 — 8 editions
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Communicating Vessels
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3.62 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1965 — 17 editions
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The Automatic Message: The ...
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Quotes by André Breton  (?)
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“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
tags: love, madness
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“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”
― André Breton, Anthology of Black Humor
tags: life, suicide
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“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Andre Breton
tags: relationships
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September 2025 New School Poll

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1977) 144 pages
 
  48 votes, 28.1%

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende pub. (1982), 448 pages
 
  42 votes, 24.6%

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1957) 201 pages
 
  27 votes, 15.8%

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (1983) 138 pages
 
  24 votes, 14.0%

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (1937) 148 pages
 
  12 votes, 7.0%

 
  10 votes, 5.8%

Nadja by André Breton (1928) 160 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.7%

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