Break of Day

A collection of critical and polemical essays. It features such essays as: "Refusal to Inter", "Legitimate Defense", "Surrealism and the Treatment of Mental Illness", "Introduction to the Strange Tales of Achim von Arnim", and "Picasso in His Element".

Mark Polizzotti is the editorial director of David R. Godine, Inc. He is the translator of numerous works and the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton. Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and the author or editor of some forty-one books, most recently The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter.

Foreword by Mary Ann Caws
Preface: In the harsh light of dawn by Mark Polizzotti Introduction to the Discourse on the Paucity of Reality
Burial Denied
In Self-Defense
Paul Eluard's "Capital of Pain"
The X..., Y... Exhibit
Notice to the Reader of "The Hundred Headless Woman"
The First Dali Exhibit
Lyubovnaya lodka razbilas o byt
On the Relations Between Intellectual Labor and Capital
Psychiatry Standing Before Surrealism
Letter to Andre Rolland de Reneville
On the Proletarian Literature Contest Organized by L'Humanitie
Introduction to Achim von Arnim's "Strange Tales"
Picasso in His Element
The Faces of Women
The Automatic Message Sources and acknowledgements