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‘Nadja’ – André Breton

As a surrealist text set in early twentieth century Paris, Nadja takes readers through a story of love and infatuation in a relationship scattered with madness. Upon reading, my first thoughts were that, while there were definitely some elements of this text which I found difficult or jarring to read, I was hooked, from start […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with blog, Paris, Romance Studies, Surrealism

Week 3 Nadja———André Breton

    Nadja was written by André Breton, who is a theorist of surrealism. The concept of surrealism is greatly expressed in the novel “Nadja.” Personally, surrealism is very abstract to me, and its ideas seem to transcend conventional reasoning and rationality, not depending on any conventional aesthetic constraints.     The novel begins with […]

Posted in Blogs, Introduction | Tagged with André Breton, Mystery, Paris, philosophical, Surrealism

Aragon on Everyday Time

Aragon on Everyday Time

Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant

Posted in Aragon lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with avant-garde, C20th, France, history, modernism, modernity, Paris, ruins, Surrealism, temporality, time

Aragon Videos

Aragon Videos

Videos related to Paris Peasant

Posted in Aragon videos | Tagged with Arcades, architecture, city, commerce, France, nature, Paris, space, videos, Walter Benjamin

blog#6 – taming Chaos

blog#6 – taming Chaos — The Duality of Cécile was by far the most captivating aspect of Bonjour Tristesse. Françoise Sagan’s ability to portray both a wild, cunning jealousy and guilt-ridden empathy and sorrow is what makes the book such an interesting read. The raw honesty and (at times, hesitant yet inevitable) introspection of Cécile’s own […]

Posted in Blogs, Sagan | Tagged with adolscent, chaos, daddy issues?, Drama, Envy, family, fate, french, funeral, gender, hindsight, mommy:mother, mother, Paris, spontaneity, stubbornness, teenage, wild child, Womanhood

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