Anthology of Black Humor
Original title: Anthologie de L'Humour Noir
earliest edition we have, 1977 City Lights Books, 1997 356 pages
This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The *Anthology of Black Humor* are already well known to American readers—Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even th...
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