{"product_id":"nadja-paperback-1","title":"Nadja - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndré Breton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, \"in Russian it's the beginning of the word for hope, and because it's only the beginning.\" Their love affair was brief, intense, and intensely self-conscious. They both talked exuberantly of the book that Breton would make out of their days and nights. And indeed a year later (after Nadja was institutionalized and Breton had moved on to other love affairs) he began to write \u003ci\u003eNadja\u003c\/i\u003e--a book of memory and analysis taking its cue in part from Freud's case studies, but also a book of ingeniously intercut images, drawing on Surrealist ideas to portray a soul whose very way of being approaches, in Breton's words, \"the extreme limit of the Surrealist aspiration.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this, the first new translation of \u003ci\u003eNadja \u003c\/i\u003ein more than sixty years, Mark Polizzotti captures the youthful excitement, the abiding strangeness, and above all the freshness of Breton's prose. He also provides an illuminating introduction about the fate of the real Nadja, whose identity remained jealously guarded until the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003eA gripping tale of infatuation and a meditation on the surrealism of everyday life, \u003ci\u003eNadja \u003c\/i\u003eis still a thing of convulsive beauty, impossible to pin or put down, a precursor to works of Julien Gracq, Julio Cortázar, and W.G. Sebald.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndré Breton\u003c\/b\u003e (1896-1966), the son of a Norman policeman and a seamstress, studied medicine in Paris and was drafted to serve in World War I in 1915. While working on a neurological ward, he met Jacques Vaché, a devotee of Alfred Jarry, and Vaché's rebellious spirit and suicide at the age of twenty-three would powerfully shape Breton's sensibility. Thanks to the auspices of Paul Valéry, Breton worked as an assistant to Marcel Proust, and in 1919, along with Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon, he founded the journal \u003ci\u003eLittérature. The Magnetic Fields, \u003c\/i\u003ethe first book of automatic writing (published by NYRB Poets), appeared in 1920, and in 1924, having broken with Tristan Tzara and the Dadaists, Breton issued the \u003ci\u003eManifesto of Surrealism. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong his other major works are \u003ci\u003eAnthology of Black Humor, Mad Love, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSurrealism and Painting.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e has translated more than sixty books from the French, including Arthur Rimbaud's \u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Boat: Selected Writings \u003c\/i\u003e(NYRB Poets) and Jean Echenoz's \u003ci\u003eCommand Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB Classics), and is the author of thirteen books, including \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Why Surrealism Matters, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJump Cuts: Essays. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in New York.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43478717759623,"sku":"9781681379364","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3zCOgmt9239781681379364.webp?v=1763261560","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/nadja-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}