André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. His writings include a Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism when pure psychic automatism.

Biography
Natural into mild origins within Tinchebray (Orne) in Normandy, he studied medicine and psychiatry. When you took World War I he worked inside the neurologic ward in Nantes, where he met a spiritual boy of Alfred Jarry, Jacques Vaché, whose anti-social attitude and disdain for constituted artistic tradition influenced Breton well. Vaché committed suicide at age 24 & his war-instance letters to Breton & others were published within the volume entitled Lettres first state guerre (1919), to which Breton wrote foursome introductory essays.

Around 1919, Breton founded the view Littérature by having Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault. He likewise attached sustaining Dadaist Tristan Tzara.

In The Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques), a collaboration by owning Soupault, he put a principle of automatic writing into practice. He published a Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, and was editor of La Révolution surréaliste from 1924. The class action coalesced as much as him — Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, René Crevel, Michel Leiris, Benjamin Peret, Antonin Artaud, and Robert Desnos.

Anxious to combine a themes of family transformation detected in the works of Arthur Rimbaud with the politics of Karl Marx, Breton joined the Communist Party in 1927, from which he was expelled around 1933. In a period of this instance, he survived mostly off the low of paintings from either his gallery.

Under Breton's counsel, surrealism became the European movement that influenced all domains of art, & question a origin of individual understanding & man perceptions of items & cases.

Disgruntled by using a Vichy government, Breton sought refuge in the United States and the Caribbean in 1941. Breton manufactured a acquaintance of Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, and late penned a introduction to the 1947 edition of Césaire's ''Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. Breton returned to Paris in 1946, where he continued, until his demise, to foster another class action of surrealists in the form of expositions or even reviews (La Brèche, 1961-1965).

His works include a novels, Nadja (1928) and L'Amour Fou'' (1937).

He married 3 times

His number one married woman was a previous Simone Kahn. His 2nd married woman was a previous Jacqueline Lamba. His third married woman was a previous Elisa Claro.

André Breton died inside 1966 & was interred in the Cimetière des Batignolles in Paris.