André Breton

Also known as Andre Breton, D'André Breton, Andre Breto, René Dobrant

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)

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André Breton was a French writer and poet who co-founded Surrealism, an influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. He matters because Surrealism fundamentally changed how artists and writers approached creativity, emphasizing the unconscious mind and dream imagery over rational thought.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 19 February 1896
Died: 28 September 1966
Works: 240

Top works

Le rouge et le noir de Stendhal
Pierre Molinier [un film de Raymond Borde
Du temps que les surréalistes avaient raison
Exposition internationale du surréalisme, janvier-février 1938
Art poétique

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 2007
Active to: 2019-02-04

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Discography

Sharing Notes2010
Counter Balance EP2010
Edward the Confessor/Kensington System2011
The Blanket Rule EP2012
Interference2012
Other People's Problems2012
Jostle2012
Force of Habit2013
Breton Remixed2013
Got Well Soon2013

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 251
Total plays: 1,611

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,396x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,818x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,774x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,395x

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Quotes

“La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.”
“Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.”
“Pure psychic automatism, by which one seeks to express, be it verbally, in writing, or in any other manner, (is) the real working of the mind. Dictated by the unconsciousness, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, and free from aesthetic or moral preoccupations.”
“I was asked to make a report on the Italian situation to this special committee of the 'gas cell', which made it clear to me that I was to stick to the statistical facts (steel production etc.) and above all not to get involved with ideology. I couldn't do it.”
“[T]his cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are' while others, which well might be, 'are not'.”
“Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand; the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.”

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Commons category: André Breton
date of death: 1966-09-28
date of birth: 1896-02-18
name in native language: André Breton
pseudonym: Breton, André
nickname: Le pape du surréalisme
birth name: André Robert Breton

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Article

André Robert Breton (/brəˈtɔːn/; French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as Nadja and L'Amour fou. Those activities, combined with his critical and theoretical work on writing and the visual arts, made André Breton a major figure in 20th-century French art and literature.