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Les Champs magnétiques (The Magnetic Fields) is a 1920 book by
André Breton and
Philippe Soupault. It is famous as the first work of literary
Surrealism. The authors used a surrealist
automatic writing technique. The book is considered Surrealist, rather than
Dadaist, because it attempts to create something new rather than react to an existing work.
Les Champs magnetiques is characterised by rich textured language that often seems to border on the nonsensical. This is considered a "normal" result of automatic writing and is considerably more logical than the output from other Surrealist techniques, such as ‘
exquisite corpse‘ (a method whereby each of a group of collaborators, in sequence, adds words or images to a composition). ...”
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