Word: bretons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things, a search for noble Kerouac ancestors in ancient Armorica (Brittany) just as if he were some crude millionaire of the Gilded Age shopping at Heralds College for something fancy in the way of ancestors. That Kerouac has simple faith became evident long ago; that he has Breton blood is the slight burden of this little book...
Died. Andre Breton, 70, French poet-philosopher, the father of surrealism; of a heart attack; in Paris. A onetime medical student with a dual penchant for poetry and psychiatry, Breton brought Freudian psychology into art and literature, turning to stream-of-consciousness and free-association techniques in his poems and dreamlike novels (Nadja, Les Vases Communicants), expounded his ideas in two Manifestes du Surrealisme (1924 and 1930), found ready disciples in art (Salvador Dali) and letters (French Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard...
While Malraux sweltered, awaiting a hearing on his appeal, Clara hurried back to Paris where she got a petition from impressionable intellectuals urging the French colonial government to spare him. The signatures included André Gide, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Louis Aragon, André Breton and old Anatole France. The upshot was a reduction of Malraux's sentence to one year, which colonial authorities quietly did not bother to enforce...
...Auden, Another Time, The Orators. Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres Posthumes. John Betjeman, Selected Poems. Andre Breton, Nadja. Albert Camus, L'Etrcmger, La Peste. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Voyage au Bout
After the first year in Cape Breton, Dunn's career took the wandering course usual for young scholars. He taught at Stephens, a two-year college for girls in Missouri, and then at Cornell, Toronto, and N.Y.U. Sabbaticals took him back to the British Isles many times; it was while in Britain on a Guggenheim that he received the offer from Harvard...