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Product Identifiers
PublisherSun & Moon Press
ISBN-101557131708
ISBN-139781557131706
eBay Product ID (ePID)816328
Product Key Features
Original LanguageFrench
Book TitleArcanum 17
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year1994
GenrePoetry
AuthorAndré Breton
Book SeriesSun and Moon Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight5.3 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume NumberNo. 51
Dewey Decimal841/.912
SynopsisAndre Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Perce Rock -- its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty -- as his central metaphor, Breton considers love and loss, aggression and war, pacifism, feminism and the occult, in a book that is part prose and part poetry, part reality and part dream. In the 17th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, a naked woman beneath a sky of stars pours water from two urns into water and onto land. This card represents hope, renewal and resurrection -- the themes that permeate Arcanum 17. Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet still breath-taking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. Book jacket.
