Before psychogeography, the Situationists and dream urbanism, there was Paris Peasant, a pioneeri...

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

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

Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century's bolde...

Full of acerbic insights on English life and manners, Alice James' diaries have made her a femini...

Originally omitted from Kafka's famous diaries, these notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famo...

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...

Retelling the adventures of Odysseus' son Telemachus through the Surrealist lens of the strange a...

Including the fabled text 'To Have Done with the Judgment of God,' this collection compiles the s...

By Philippe Soupault. Translated by William Carlos Williams.

A tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire

Pessoa's trenchant complement to The Book of Disquiet

A Rabelaisian mock-epic full of typographic play and careening prose

Apollinaire's first book: a collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mysti...

Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious

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

This pataphysical journey up a mountain whose 'summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessib...

The now classic compilation of writings by Kurt Schwitters, Dada pioneer and the inventor of Merz

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

Pessoa's most famous work depicts a vast interior landscape laced with daily minutiae and aphoris...

This dark, autobiographical coming-of-age novel reads more like an exorcism than a memoir

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

Dalí's meditations on art and the 'paranoid-critical method,' plus poems and more

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 ...