Nadja By Andre Breton 1st English Edition, Rare 1st Printing, Grove Press 1960
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Nadja, by Andre Breton, 1st edition published in English. An Evergreen Original (E-253) , Grove Press, 1960. No marking, no spine or other creases, very good condition, appears unread; 160 pp. with 44 illustrations.Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhapsbest Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement'sattitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of theauthor's relation...ship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of anobsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative issupplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of thework--pictures of various 'surreal' people, places, and objects which theauthor visits or is haunted by in Nadja's presence and which inspire him tomeditate on their reality or lack of it.
