Nadja, André Breton
(Part of Catherine Millet’s theme: Great Classics)

"I took, from the first to the last day, Nadja for a free genie, something like one of those spirits of the air that certain practices of magic allow momentarily to be attached, but that there can be no question of submitting to. I saw her fern-like eyes open in the morning on a world where the fluttering of wings of immense hope is barely distinguishable from the other sounds that are those of terror, and on this world I had yet seen only eyes close."

Nadja will introduce the narrator to the transformation of daily life by taking him on walks through the streets of Paris. This mysterious woman, who asserts herself as "the wandering soul," invites the poet to "a crossing of the mirror that takes him to the other side of reality, beyond the border that distinguishes the real from the imaginary but also separates reason and madness."

Gallimard/NRF, 2013
Text in French
Soft cover
18,5 x 12 cm
200 pages
ISBN: 978-2-07-021000-8