Insane Love

the insane Love is a long text of André Breton writes years 1934 to 1936, and published in 1937.

It seems the continuation of a preceding surrealist account of the same author, Nadja writes in 1928. Just like this one, the book reports experiments lived by Breton, of coincidences which directs it towards that which will become his wife later, and who is the subject of the novel.

The construction of the book is however déstructurée, made " parts; fantasmagoriques" (as well as other dreams of Breton), then of narrative ruptures frays of photographs and poetries, as it was also the case in Nadja . In this dispersion in spite of that a discussion thread appears, the subject of the love. Besides in a passage, it rents a film left into 1935 an impossible love phantasm: Peter Ibbetson , the adaptation by Henry Hathaway of the novel of George of Maurier:

an extraordinary film, triumphs over the surrealist thought.

In Nadja, the book finished by a sentence which the author had written in capital letter,

THE BEAUTY WILL BE CONVULSIVE OR WILL NOT BE.

the insane Love is the continuation of Nadja in the direction where it develops this sentence, Breton expressing its vision of the love through its characteristic lived in love. André Breton sees in the love two aspects: love like " communication of the cœurs" (it with what it refers by the symbolic system of the the Mystery 17 and the communicating Vases ), and carnal love, giving at the end " CONVULSIVE" all its physical dimension.

This separation of the body and the spirit, Breton wants to transform it into a point of meeting, it is for him passion, that is to say this famous insane love . This love is what then appears to him to be the wisest love, going even until finishing its text by a council with his/her daughter:

I wish you to be madly liked.

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