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Artist:	SOUPAULT, PHILIPPE
Title:	Last Nights Of Paris
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC SOUPAULT

This classic 1928 novel, available again, as translated by William Carlos Williams. "Co-author with André Breton of the first self-proclaimed book of automatic writing, Les Champs Magnétiques(1919), Philippe Soupault was one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. A poet, novelist, and journalist, with a much less political and less theoretical approach to writing than his colleagues Breton and Aragon, Soupault was expelled from the movement in 1926 -- along with Antonin Artaud -- for their isolated pursuit of the stupid literary adventure. Last Nights of Paris in English is a surprising artifact of the twenties...[it] seems to share much with both the Surrealist novels (Nadja, Paris Peasant) and the American expatriate novels (The Great Gatsby, The Days of the Locust) of its day. It's underworld setting, the narrator's obsession with a woman and identification of her with the place she inhabits, the plot that seems to tend toward conflagration, its preoccupation with chance and with the city -- all could be drawn variously from the novels mentioned above.

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