Why is this considered such an important novel of the surrealist movement?
It is neither particularly good nor particularly surreal. It was actually pretty confusing to read such a conventional book coming from the very guy who wrote the surrealist manifesto that so vehemently rejected realism.
Thoughts?
>>7810164
I've never really been impressed with anything Breton did. Sure, he headed the surrealist movement, but he was far from being the best member. In fact, the guy was a bit of an asshole.
>>7810164
Surrealism was all about pseuds pretending to be deep. It was the original muumuuhouse.
>>7810188
>mfw this is true
Yeah, and Breton always was the least interesting of them. A fringe politician.
>tfw my gf is called Nadia
Is this one of the worst covers of all time or what?
>>7810164
>thoughts?
You're retarded and don't know what you're talking about.
>>7810164
breton didn't reject realism. early surrealism was supposed to be an ultimate reality that consolidates the conscious and the unconscious. reality is as key to surrealism as unreality. keep in mind benjamin's comments on surrealism and 'profane illumination'
>There is something about the closeness once felt between the narrator and Nadja that indicated a depth beyond the limits of conscious rationality, waking logic, and sane operations of the everyday. There is something essentially “mysterious, improbable, unique, bewildering” about her; this reinforces the notion that their propinquity serves only to remind André of Nadja's impenetrability. Her eventual recession into absence is the fundamental concern of this text, an absence that permits Nadja to live freely in André's conscious and unconscious, seemingly unbridled, maintaining her paradoxical role as both present and absent. With Nadja's past fixed within his own memory and consciousness, the narrator is awakened to the impenetrability of reality and perceives a particularly ghostly residue peeking from under its thin veil. Thus, he might better put into practice his theory of Surrealism, predicated on the dreaminess of the experience of reality within reality itself.
>>7810359
Don't bother, anon; don't waste your time on the idiots in this thread.
