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book collects together the two most vital "automatic" texts of Surrealism The Magnetic Fieldsand The Immaculate Conceptionwith Breton's prefatory essay "The Automatic Message" which relates this technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of the Surrealist movement.
Historic, epic in scope and classic surrealism, Glad I am finished. At several points I had difficulty continuing, It is not an easy read, Im looking forward to reading something with even a trace amount of narrative in it, I give this work five not on its specific content but for the ideas behind it, It's of course a historic set of works, it shows off the automatic and collaborative writing of the surrealists, It puts into action the ideas Breton wanted to see happen in writing,
Now is it gibberish Yes a lot of it seems to be, Funny though that it always kept my interest for the most part, I didn't know exactly what would be said next most of the time, The most interesting part to me was the introductions to the texts that explained how they'd been constructed and what the desired effects were.
They simulate madness. They patch together texts. They write without thinking. They attack rationality and religion in offhanded ways,
The beats weren't the first spontaneous poets/prosers and in a sense Breton was following Rimbaud and Lautreamont, although he and Soupault and Eluard took it the next step and you don't see many writers going that wild and all over the page like this.
Maybe the closest is Burrough's Naked Lunch although I think that The Automatic Message's crap in comparison to this one because Burroughs didn't have any cohesion or idea behind the mad prose.
Which perhaps Breton would say is better for its authentic automatism, but I'd say Burroughs was a wacked out junkie who
wrote better books after he was off junk.
Could Joyce and Donald Barthelme be in the same automatic writing category with their rants and wordplay and nonsense I've been trying to read more contemporary fiction and so far a lot of what I read is very conventional and boring, more innovation is needed it seems or I'm not finding the new authors who're doing such.
Not that I want to read poetic prose like The Automatic Message all day, that would be too incoherent, but taking some of the wordplay, musicality, surreal sentences and phrases that are usually reserved to poetry and putting them in fiction.
Fuck all this sparse clean prose, that's old hat, it's time for another dismantled organizing of the language of fiction but please let's not make it text messages and emails as if we didn't read enough of those.
Rant for more interesting stylistic changes to contemporary fiction concluded, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!! Like most all of the Atlas Press titles, The Automatic Message / the Magnetic Fields is of lasting historical and literary relevance, A classic. It remains one of my all time favourite books! Classic Surrealist literatureor Automatic Writing as it was coined, Nonsense as poetry Intriguing, but the novelty wears off after awhile, André Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism, His writings include the sitelink Surrealist Manifesto Manifeste du surréalisme of, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism, André Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism, His writings include the sitelink Surrealist Manifesto Manifeste du surréalisme of, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism", sitelink.