Mark Polizzotti is een gevierd vertaler wiens uitgebreide werk meer dan vijftig boeken van gerenommeerde auteurs omvat. Als Uitgever en Hoofdredacteur bij het Metropolitan Museum of Art overziet hij een belangrijk publicatieprogramma, wat blijk geeft van een scherp redactioneel inzicht. Zijn kritische inzichten en zijn toewijding om complexe literaire werken toegankelijk te maken voor nieuwe lezers onderstrepen zijn diepgaande impact op het literaire discours. Polizzotti's inspanningen overbruggen culturen en tijdperken, en verrijken het mondiale literaire landschap door middel van zorgvuldige vertalingen en inzichtelijke commentaren.
Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. The film exhibits some of Bunuel's recognisable themes of love's yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer of compassion that sets it apart from many of his other films.
An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate
"In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs onHighway 61 Revisited so affecting, how they work together as a suite,and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful). And he focuses on Dylan's mythic presence in the mid-60s, when he emerged from his proletarian incarnation to become the American Rimbaud. The comparison has been made by others, including Dylan, and it illuminates much about his mid-sixties career, for in many respects Highway 61 is rock 'n' roll's answer to "A Season in Hell."
A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together behind a fiery preacher, to challenge the entrenched powers of the ruling elite.
In the first full-length biography in English of Andre Breton, the founder and prime theorist of the French Surrealist movement, Mark Polizzotti reveals the intellectual, artistic and personal life of one of our century's most influential and charismatic cultural figures, a man whom Eugene Ionesco dubbed "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought." This definitive work traces Breton's artistic career, from his participation in the Paris Dada group in the 1920s, through his seminal experiments with automatic writings and "induced slumbers," to the development of Surrealism proper and the literary, aesthetic, social, and political successes and scandals of that most influential modernist movement. Polizzotti reconstructs Breton's intense and formative friendships with Man Ray, Duchamp, Dali, and Miro, among others; his legendary encounters with Trotsky, Freud, and Sartre; and his several marriages and love affairs.
„Revolution des Geistes“ ist die erste große Biographie über den Papst des Surrealismus: reich an bisher unveröffentlichtem Material, spannend und mit feinem Gespür für das künstlerische und ideologische Magnetfeld um die zentrale Figur in diesem Abenteuer des Geistes.