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Magnétiques Cover.jpg Author André Breton and Philippe Soupault
Country France Language French Genre Surrealist Publisher
Gallimard Publication date 1920 Media type Print (Hardback &
Paperback) Pages 187 pp ISBN NA & reissue ISBN 2-07-031877-X For
the Jean-Michel Jarre album "Les Chants Magnétiques", see
Magnetic Fields (album). For the American band led by Stephin
Merritt, see The Magnetic Fields.  Les Champs Magnétiques (The
Magnetic Fields) is a book by André Breton and Philippe
Soupault. It is famed as the first work of literary Surrealism.
Published in 1920, 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 considere