{"product_id":"communicating-vessels-9780803261358","title":"Communicating Vessels","description":"What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, \u003ci\u003eLes Vases communicants\u003c\/i\u003e is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This English translation makes available \"the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based.\" \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCommunicating Vessels\u003c\/i\u003e Breton lays out the problems of everyday experience and of intellect. His involvement with political thought and action led him to write about the relations between nations and individuals in a mode that moves from the quotidian to the lyrical. His dreams triggered a curious correspondence with Freud, available only in this book. As Caws writes, \"The whole history of surrealism is here, in these pages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her translation of Breton's Mad Love is also available as a Bison Book. Geoffrey T. Harris is a senior lecturer on modern languages at the University of Salford in England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556475572498,"sku":"9780803261358","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1bda1943-7948-4449-9858-49fb6663a14e.jpg?v=1731754504","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/communicating-vessels-9780803261358","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}