Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most...
Among Antonin Artaud’s most brilliant works are the scatological glossolalia composed in the final three years of his life (1945-1948), during...
Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) was the original transgressive author; the first word of his famous play Ubu Roi — "Shittr!" — changed...
The artist Giorgio de Chirico’s novel Hebdomeros is astonishing dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In...
"What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment — maybe, say, six weeks — nobody...
Alice James (1848-1892) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but —...
Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play Ubu Roi, but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is...
From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka stopped writing entries in his diary, which he kept in quarto-sized notebooks, but continued to write in...
André Breton wrote that Maldoror is "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about...
"I claim for the image the humility and powers of a madeleine." Filmmaker, photographer, writer, and traveler Chris Marker has never...
Aurélia is a document of dreams, obsession, and insanity. An account of Nerval’s unrequited passion for an actress and subsequent descent into...
The rediscovery in the 1990s of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is reminiscent of the rediscovery of Kafka in the 1950s. Like...
“I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone.” Portuguese author...
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the twentieth century. What few in the...
Jerome Rothenberg has raised the anthology to an art form. His most recent publication, Poems for the Millennium (University of California Press,...
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) is known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Some of our greatest poets have worked to describe the strange...
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who now makes her home in Mexico City, is also a writer of extraordinary...
A Voice through a Cloud is English novelist Denton Welch's heartbreaking account of his recovery from a bicycling accident that left him partially...
Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welch's sixteenth year, when he ran away from his English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to...
First published in 1945, In Youth is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch...
This is the first U.S. publication of two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka...
In 1937 Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work has been long misunderstood and...
Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been...
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), inventor of his own personal branch of Dadaism called "Merz," is best known for his collages and for his...
Salvador Dalí’s writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into...
A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, provincial romantics, and adventurers in crime, The Heresiarch & Co. was...
Apollinaire was modernism’s first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915,...
This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon’s 1922 novel...
Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, a work that helps define the movement itself; yet this is the first U.S. publication...
Written in his characteristic “mesostics” (linked lines of prose poetry), Composition in Retrospect is a statement of methodology in...
Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots to...
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