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dearcomposer's review against another edition
3.0
A tough read that did not age as well as it could've. Still moments of greatness and pure surrealist diss/association
msand3's review
3.0
An odd, rambling account of political liberty, womanhood, and natural beauty. Beautifully written at times, but also obscure and personal. Some sections read like a string of Joycean epiphanies loosely connected to the book's themes, while other sections read like a political manifesto. I feel as if I may have had a stronger connection to the work if I had been reading it at a certain time in my life--or perhaps if I had lived through that moment in history between the wars upon which Breton was reflecting.
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