André Breton, Nadja
A conversation with Mark Polizzotti
Questions on Nadja
Videos about André Breton
I personally had a blast reading Nadja, a peek into the mind of someone very eccentric but on the verge of being mentally unhinged. To be honest however, the pacing is awfully slow, it’s a type of atmospheric writing that requires patience but a manner of reading that doesn’t take the story seriously, but still […]
Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The stacks are toppling already–not the best of signs, but hopefully I should be able to get these tremors under control with a good spell of focus. I won’t dally with describing the organizationa…
Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The stacks are toppling already–not the best of signs, but hopefully I should be able to get these tremors under control with a good spell of focus. I won’t dally with describing the organizationa…
My first thought when I read the initial couple pages of Nadja was… this man sounds annoying. My lasting thought when I finished Nadja was… this man is still annoying. It’s probably a mix of my distaste for the writing style, and his narration itself. The writing and flow was disorienting and confusing to me, maybe because it […]
I was expecting this book to be mainly about Nadja as the main character, so I was surprised when it came across as more of a reflection on Breton’s identity. I found it almost impossible to get past my hatred of Breton for most of this novel. I found both his actions and the way […]
So this was my first real taste of Surrealism, (I think) and I do not think it is quite the writing style fit for me… I definitely think the idea behind Surrealism is cool in how it is meant to blend together reality and thoughts, both conscious and unconscious to create the Surreal world which […]
