Paris Peasant is one of the central works of Surrealism. Largely a detailed description of a Pari...

By Philippe Soupault. Translated by William Carlos Williams.

This sequel to Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas has been long misunderstood and neglected...

Frequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about it...

Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to 'erase the boundaries between the arts.' This collection, cul...

The discovery in the 1990s of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is reminiscent of...

Fiction. 'I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life beg...

A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell's voluminous diaries

Andre Breton described 'Maldoror 'as 'the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exce...

Nonfiction. THE DEATH AND LETTERS OF ALICE JAMES. 'A mesmerizing account of Alice James's career ...

From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-...

The founding text of pataphysics ('the science of imaginary solutions'), and one of the most quie...