{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-telemachus-9781878972231","title":"The Adventures of Telemachus","description":"\u003cp\u003eRetelling the adventures of Odysseus son Telemachus through the Surrealist lens of the strange and the marvelous This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragons 1922 novel boldly appropriates the title and plot of a didactic 17th-century epic  recounting the adventures of Odysseus son Telemachus; but the moralistic underpinnings of the original are replaced by a Surrealists dedication to the strange  the beautiful and the erotic. Though a classic of Surrealism  this is not automatic writing; on the contrary  it is a wryly self-conscious book  full of the kinds of intertextual games associated with writers such as Borges and Calvino. As the Huberts comment in their introduction  Aragon did not have to liberate his mind through automatic exercises; but by mastering and playing with the narrative  he succeeded in freeing himself from the constraints of mimeticism  descending into the diabolical nirvana of Dada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914101415989,"sku":"ByrdShop_1878972235","price":239.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781878972231.jpg?v=1787334557","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-adventures-of-telemachus-9781878972231","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}