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Nadja

Nadja. Andr é Breton. Nadja is an enigmatic book, dense and idiosyncratic. It is considered a classical text of Surrealism. It is the fruit of collective experiment and interaction, it represents the sprit of early surrealism.

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Nadja

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  1. Nadja André Breton

  2. Nadja is an enigmatic book, dense and idiosyncratic. • It is considered a classical text of Surrealism. • It is the fruit of collective experiment and interaction, it represents the sprit of early surrealism. • It is obscure. It states facts (no explanations). It was a way of documenting the surrealist experience. Focuses on the what not on the how nor on the why.

  3. Nadja is not about surrealism. • It is a demonstration of surrealism. • It is intertextual (Breton, Surrealist writers ).

  4. How to study Nadja • Understand and rely on biographical aspects, historical events, and topographical information ( street, signs, plan of Paris…etc.) • Act as a detective, a sociologist, a psychologist or a psychoanalyst as well as a literary critic. The text has multiple meanings and many layered structure. 1915- 1926 series of real- life incidents. Nadja is a demonstration through examples, collection of data.

  5. Elective places - Nantes - Place Dauphine - Flea market - Le theatre modern - Le boulevard Bonne Nouvelle

  6. Enigmatic Objects - The port of Saint Denis - Place Maubert - Place Pantheon - Bronze in form of glove - Pictures and drawings

  7. Perceptual correspondences - Maison rouge - Bois - charbon

  8. Recurrent motifs - Eye - Hand

  9. Coincidences = Hidden mental power - Name of admirer - Place Dauphine – Bar Dauphin

  10. Encounters - Meetings - Poetry - Breton and X

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