Andre breton biography founder of amazon music

Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as Nadja and L'Amour fou. Breton attended medical school, where he developed a particular interest in mental illness. Breton married his first wife, Simone Kahn, on 15 September The couple relocated to rue Fontaine No. The apartment on rue Fontaine in the Pigalle district became home to Breton's collection of more than 5, items: modern paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, books, art catalogs, journals, manuscripts, and works of popular and Oceanic art.

Like his father, he was an atheist. Eager to combine the themes of personal transformation found in the works of Arthur Rimbaud with the politics of Karl Marx , Breton and others joined the French Communist Party in , from which he was expelled in Nadja , a novel about his imaginative encounter with a woman who later becomes mentally ill, was published in Due to the economic depression , he had to sell his art collection and rebuilt it later.

Aptly described by playwright

In reaction to the Second manifesto , writers and artists published in a collective collection of pamphlets against Breton, entitled in allusion to an earlier title by Breton Un Cadavre. The authors were members of the surrealist movement who were insulted by Breton or had otherwise opposed his leadership. It marked a divide amidst the early surrealists.

Georges Limbour and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes commented on the sentence where shooting at random in the crowd is described as the simplest surrealist act. Limbour saw in it an example of buffoonery and shamelessness and Ribemont-Dessaignes called Breton a hypocrite, a cop and a priest. After the publication of this pamphlet against Breton, the Manifesto had a second edition, where Breton added in a note: "While I say that this act is the simplest, it is clear that my intention is not to recommend it to all merely by virtue of its simplicity; to quarrel with me on this subject is much like a bourgeois asking any non-conformist why he does not commit suicide, or asking a revolutionary why he hasn't moved to the USSR".

In , there was a conflict between Breton and the Soviet writer and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg during the first International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, which opened in Paris in June.