Free Union (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: André Breton
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Wives, Sex or sexuality, Surrealism, Dreams, Women
The Poem
In order to appreciate André Breton’s “Free Union,” a basic understanding of Surrealism (or surréalisme) is helpful. This artistic movement, which Breton more or less founded, constituted a rebellion against the realism and naturalism dominating literature and the other arts during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a literal sense, the word means beyond or above realism. Surrealist art, whatever the form—literature, painting, film, sculpture—does not intend to recreate the phenomena of the outward world but focuses instead on the...
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