The Automatic Muse

Robert Desnos

Original title: The automatic muse

earliest edition we have, 1995 Serpent's Tail, 1995 paperback 170 pages

The Automatic Muse collects together four remarkable novels from the early days of Surrealism - the 1920's, when the group was experimenting with "automatic writing" and other methods of "forcing inspiration.". Despite, or because of, the methods used in their composition these works are remarkable for the differences between them. They are variously mysterious, comic, astonishing, wildly extravagant. Yet they all s...

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