Nadja - French Edition Author:Andre Breton English summary: Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. — The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessed presence... more » haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in Nadja's presence and which inspire him to meditate on their reality or lack of it.
French summary: J'ai pris, du premier au denier jour, Nadja pour un genie libre, quelque chose comme un de ces esprits de l'air que certaines pratiques de magie permettent momentanement de s'attacher, mais qu'il ne saurait etre question de se soumettre... J'ai vu ses yeux de fougere s'ouvrir le matin sur un monde ou les battements d'ailes de l'espoir immense se distinguent a peine des autres bruits qui sont ceux de la terreur et, sur ce monde, je n'avais vu encore que des yeux se fermer.« less