Description: Examines the developments that paved the way for the Surrealist movement in literature and art.
Brief description: Willard Bohn is Professor of Foreign Languages at Illinois State University. He has written several books, including Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde, also published by SUNY Press, and Modern Visual Poetry, and he is the translator of The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry.
Review Quotes:
"This topic is significant for virtually all students of twentieth-century art and literature, in France and the West generally. A superb piece of scholarship." -- Robert W. Greene, author of Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction
"Bohn takes up many of the most challenging, well-known, and lingering critical questions for students of Surrealism, and the reader comes away from the book having learned many important new things, along with the answers to several other, older problems." -- Stamos Metzidakis, coauthor and editor of Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millennium