The Automatic Message

The Automatic Message is a compilation of surrealist writing of André Breton, Paul Éluard and Philippe Soupault, amongst others. The book includes two vital ?automatic? texts of surrealism.

Related Topics:
Surrealist - André Breton - Paul Éluard - Philippe Soupault

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Breton?s prefatory essay The Automatic Message relates the technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of surrealism.

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The Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques) (1919) by Breton and Soupault, was the first work of literary surrealism and one of the foundations of modern European thought and writing. The Automatic Message contains the authorised translation by the poet David Gascoyne, himself a member of the group, and a friend of both authors.

Related Topics:
The Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques) - 1919

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The Immaculate Conception (1930) traces the interior and exterior life of man from Conception and Intra-Uterine Life to Death and The Original Judgement, and includes a section with a series of ?simulations? of various types of mental instability.

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