I'm not too sure what to think of Nadja just yet... only that I like it, and especially appreciate Breton's use of pictures throughout to help illustrate the telling of the story, particularly where Nadja's character is concerned. ("because in Russian it's the beginning of the word hope, and because it's only the beginning...") I'm obviously drawn to the surrealistic elements of the work and whether or not (at this point, at least) we know what the reality of Andre's world really is.
The pictures throughout, though, are what really intrigues me. We could, as an audience, do well in understanding the work without them, I suppose, but I think their importance lies in the fact that it does give us a visual representation of Andre's tale. They obviously tie in closely with the narrative, but I think it would also be pretty cool if they were "out of order," in a sense, or without captions, so that their meaning or their reasons for being included in the narrative could be left up to us to determine. I guess the pictures do serve as a sort of literal reality for us as we're reading, which I think is juxtaposed pretty nicely with the surrealist text.
The pictures throughout, though, are what really intrigues me. We could, as an audience, do well in understanding the work without them, I suppose, but I think their importance lies in the fact that it does give us a visual representation of Andre's tale. They obviously tie in closely with the narrative, but I think it would also be pretty cool if they were "out of order," in a sense, or without captions, so that their meaning or their reasons for being included in the narrative could be left up to us to determine. I guess the pictures do serve as a sort of literal reality for us as we're reading, which I think is juxtaposed pretty nicely with the surrealist text.
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