Anthology of Black Humor: 紀伊國屋書店BookWeb

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Source： ENG
Academic Descriptors： P24102465
Publishers： Commercial
Place of Publication： United States
Language of Publication： English
Edition： First
Physical Format： Hardbound
Textual Format： Readings/Anthologies
Academic Level： Undergraduate

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Book Data Full Description：: "L'humour Noir" is one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and Breton's famous anthology is his definitive statement on the subject. It contains assessments of the writers he most admired. Some, such as Kafka, Swift, Rimbaud and Poe are well known, but other names will come as a revelation.
"L'humour Noir" is one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and Breton's famous anthology is his definitive statement on the subject. It contains provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. Some, such as Kafka, Swift, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll and Baudelaire, are well known, but other names will come as a revelation to many - as will the passages Breton includes by writers you thought you knew. Breton's original foreword, considered to be one of his most important theoretical essays, is included, along with his preface to the 1966 edition. For each of the 45 authors included, Breton writes a biographical and critical preface, placing their work in the context of black humour, which, as readers will discover for themselves, is a partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as "a superior revolt of the mind."

Baker&Taylor Table of Contents：

Introduction:  Laughter In the Dark                v   (6)
        Mark Polizzotti
Foreword to the 1966 French Edition                xi  (2)
Lightning Rod                                      xiii
        Andre Breton
  Jonathan Swift                                   3   (15)
  D.-A.-F.de Sade                                  18  (12)
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg                      30  (9)
  Charles Fourier                                  39  (14)
  Thomas De Quincey                                53  (6)
  Pierre-Francois Lacenaire                        59  (4)
  Christian Dietrich Grabbe                        63  (12)
  Petrus Borel                                     75  (8)
  Edgar Allan Poe                                  83  (6)
  Xavier Forneret                                  89  (9)
  Charles Baudelaire                               98  (6)
  Lewis Carroll                                    104 (9)
  Villiers de l'Isle-Adam                          113 (6)
  Charles Cros                                     119 (10)
  Friedrich Nietzsche                              129 (3)
  Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautreamont)           132 (12)
  Joris-Karl Huysmans                              144 (11)
  Tristan Corbiere                                 155 (5)
  Germain Nouveau                                  160 (4)
  Arthur Rimbaud                                   164 (7)
  Alphonse Allais                                  171 (10)
  Jean-Pierre Brisset                              181 (8)
  O. Henry                                         189 (8)
  Andre Gide                                       197 (7)
  John Millington Synge                            204 (7)
  Alfred Jarry                                     211 (15)
  Raymond Roussel                                  226 (11)
  Francis Picabia                                  237 (4)
  Guillaume Apollinaire                            241 (9)
  Pablo Picasso                                    250 (4)
  Arthur Cravan                                    254 (7)
  Franz Kafka                                      261 (13)
  Jakob van Hoddis                                 274 (3)
  Marcel Duchamp                                   277 (6)
  Hans Arp                                         283 (4)
  Alberto Savinio                                  287 (6)
  Jacques Vache                                    293 (8)
  Benjamin Peret                                   301 (8)
  Jacques Rigaut                                   309 (6)
  Jacques Prevert                                  315 (6)
  Salvador Dali                                    321 (8)
  Jean Ferry                                       329 (6)
  Leonora Carrington                               335 (6)
  Gisele Prassinos                                 341 (6)
  Jean-Pierre Duprey                               347 (7)
Acknowledgments                                    354