Understanding Breton

It's hard to isolate André Breton from the constellation of which he was the passionate nucleus throughout his life. A man of mad friendship, a poet of mad love, the poet of Surrealism knew only how to conceive his artistic approach collectively.

Fré déric Aribit explores or rediscovers the atypical career of one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature, between his attempted poetic coup d'état, his major manifestos and his artistic experiments.