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Biography of André Breton

André Breton, a French poet, was one of the pioneers of surrealism. Breton was an authoritarian leader who did not tolerate objections, which repelled many of his students due to his tyranny. He was also a physician by profession. Between 1916 and 1924, he participated in one of the most extravagant avant-garde movements - Dada. In 1922, he published his first surrealist manifesto (the word "surrealism" was coined by the famous French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who died in 1918), followed by the groundbreaking work "Surrealism and Painting" in 1928 - the second, more comprehensive surrealist manifesto. Breton had a profound and lasting influence on painting, with most young artists in France and other countries drawing inspiration from surrealism for two decades. Despite his contributions to the movement, many of his students were put off by his authoritarianism. Breton also attempted to make a name for himself in politics, at one point joining the French Communist Party and participating in left-radical movements. Among Breton's literary masterpieces are the enigmatic and elegant novel "Nadja" (1928), the book "Communicating Vessels" (1932), the passionate duology "Mad Love" (1937) and "Arcane 17" (1945). His work "The Magical Art" (1957) is also highly interesting. Sergey Dubin, a renowned expert in French literature, wrote in the journal "Foreign Literature" (1996, No. 8) dedicated to André Breton's 100th anniversary: "Unable, perhaps, to bring his own verbal achievements out of the realm of marginality and attractiveness only to a few enthusiasts, surrealism nevertheless, with its street audacity, criticism of routine or pompous aesthetics - and sometimes ethics - and, especially, the triumphant 'discovery' of the role of arbitrariness and wonder in creativity, penetrated into numerous smallest crevices of contemporary art and artistic life. Pop art, conceptualism, the new novel, collage novel, Jackson Pollock's action painting, magical realism of Eastern European and South American writers, verbal experiments of Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec - behind all these artistic phenomena, the lion's mane of Breton is invisibly present."

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