Anthology of Black Humor

André Breton

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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Editions we hold

Anthology Of Black Humour edition · 2009 · Telegram Books · 9781846590740
Anthologie de l'Humour Noir paperback · 2000 · French & European Pubns · 9780785907848
Anthologie de L'Humour Noir paperback · 1999 · Librairie Generale Francaise · 445 pages · 9782253034247
Anthology of Black Humor edition · 1997 · City Lights Books · 356 pages
Anthologie de l'humour noir paperback · 1977 · Fayard · 414 pages · 9782720201844

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