Frequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about it...

Paris Peasant is one of the central works of Surrealism. Largely a detailed description of a Pari...

This sequel to Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas has been long misunderstood and neglected...

Introduced once as bright boy of British belles letters, there may be a dubious few to whom his e...

Fiction. 'I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life beg...

A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell's voluminous diaries

Andre Breton described 'Maldoror 'as 'the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exce...

Nonfiction. THE DEATH AND LETTERS OF ALICE JAMES. 'A mesmerizing account of Alice James's career ...

From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-...

The founding text of pataphysics ('the science of imaginary solutions'), and one of the most quie...

Morton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing...

Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this esse...

This 1922 novel is one of the most entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon parodied a se...

This is the first new English language anthology of Artaud's writing m nearly twenty years, and r...

By Philippe Soupault. Translated by William Carlos Williams.

The rediscovery in the 1990s of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888 -- 1935) is reminisce...

Padgett's translation of the long title story appeared in a large, formal edition in 1968 (with i...

By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Remy Inglis Hall.

John Cage's poetical statement on indeterminacy, Duchamp, art, life and more

In this novel allegory the narrator author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount ...

Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to 'erase the boundaries between the arts.' This collection, cul...

One of the most revered and acclaimed products of Surrealism, de Chirico's sole novel provides a ...

The discovery in the 1990s of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is reminiscent of...

Translated and with an Introduction by Caroline Rupprecht.

Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exagge...

The artist Dali's earliest writing, from the period in which he was most closely allied with the ...

A fascinating oral history of one of American indie rock's most enduring and influential acts

The legendary French filmmaker's labyrinthine memoir, first published by Exact Change in 2002 as ...