num_pages: 264
description: The closest Andre Breton has ever come to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the Surrealists' ideological debate with communism and their opposition to Stalin.
language: English
title: Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism
titlecomplete: Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism
genres: Autobiography, France, History, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 95
publisher: Da Capo Press