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After working in psychiatric
wards in W.W. I, Breton gave up his medical studies in 1919 to pursue a literary career. He was acquainted with Freud's "free association" and dream analysis. Breton and Philippe Soupault closed themselves in a dark room and attempted to record words and images that resulted from a semiconscious state of mind. These experiments in automatic writing resulted in the literary branch of Surrealism. (Breton and Soupault had been leaders of the Dada movement, and Breton's quarrel with Tristan Tzara contributed to the dissolution of that movement.) Breton issued the "First Surrealist Manifesto" in 1929 and controlled the movement for more than 40 years.
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Baton Breton ruled Surrealism with a big stick.