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Anthology of Black Humor (Paperback)

by Andre Breton (Author, Editor), Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 356 pages
  • Publisher: City Lights Books (28 Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0872863212
  • ISBN-13: 978-0872863217
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 14 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"L'humour Noir" is one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and Breton's famous anthology is his definitive statement on the subject. It contains provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. Some, such as Kafka, Swift, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll and Baudelaire, are well known, but other names will come as a revelation to many - as will the passages Breton includes by writers you thought you knew. Breton's original foreword, considered to be one of his most important theoretical essays, is included, along with his preface to the 1966 edition. For each of the 45 authors included, Breton writes a biographical and critical preface, placing their work in the context of black humour, which, as readers will discover for themselves, is a partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as "a superior revolt of the mind."
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars very funny, 20 Jun 1999
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I am writing in response to the person who said that the selections in here are childish. Do you even understand black humour, dadaism, or surealism? Since when is being childish a bad thing?
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4.0 out of 5 stars Goos hit, 13 Jul 1998
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This book was good because it contained lots of sarcastic, twisted ideas which arose mainly in the nineteenth century. don't read it for fun, read it because you have absolutely nothing better to do. Ta-ta!
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0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Uneven, but generally not very funny, 25 Jul 1998
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Andre Breton had selected the forty core texts for this anthology by 1936, but its publication was delayed by World War II until 1945.

Virtually all of the authors were unfamiliar to me, and some are excruciatingly funny, but most are surrealists bogged down in Freudian concepts of the id, ego and superego.

Neither Breton nor the translator, Mark Polizzotti, ever bothers to define Black Humor, but if they did, their definition would be Freudian and out-of-line with more modern views. Most of the pieces selected are, unfortunately, childish, unintelligible and boring.

Life's short and there are a lot of great books to read. This is not one of them

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