Volume 18, Number 10 · June 1, 1972
The Dada-Surrealist Expedition: Part II
By Roger Shattuck
André Breton: Magus of Surrealism
by Anna Balakian
Oxford, 289 pp., $10.00
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp
by Arturo Schwarz
Abrams, 650, 700 illustrations, 75 color plates pp., $55.00
Thus Professor Balakian lays out the lines of her study, André Breton: Magus of Surrealism. Later she quotes Breton himself on the 'infinitesimal interest' of an author's life as compared to 'the message.' Balakian has gone on to write an honest, healthily partisan, well-informed book that sometimes stays too close to its subject but at least tries to come to terms with a powerful mind. (The subtitle seems inappropriate; she treats Breton essentially as an intellectual hero:)
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