{"id":1666600,"date":"2026-03-25T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2026\/03\/25\/\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:41:48","slug":"mark-polizzotti-on-andre-breton-translation-and-surrealism","status":"publish","type":"daily","link":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2026\/03\/25\/mark-polizzotti-on-andre-breton-translation-and-surrealism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Polizzotti on Andr\u00e9 Breton, Translation, and Surrealism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of\u00a0<em>Private Life<\/em>, Jarrett Earnest is joined by Mark Polizzotti to discuss Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s surrealist novel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/nadja?_pos=1&amp;_psq=nadja&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\"><em>Nadja<\/em><\/a>, originally published in 1928 and translated into English by Polizzotti for NYRB Classics in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/share.transistor.fm\/e\/9431fa65?color=990101\"><\/iframe><br><p class=\"color-gray mb-0 text-label font-ivar text-center mt-xs-1 img-caption d-none d-lg-block\">Click the \u201cSubscribe\u201d link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform.<p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Polizzotti gives insight into the process of translation, the facts of the real Nadja\u2019s life, and the quotations and photography that Breton employed to evoke the woman behind the \u201cethereal phantom.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Breton was a French poet, writer, and theorist, best known as a pioneering Surrealist and Dadaist. 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