The Road Is Wider Than Long: An Image Diary From The Balkans, July - August 1938
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the blazing summer of 1938, with Europe teetering on the edge of catastrophe, the British Surrealist artist and poet Roland Penrose embarked on a journey through the Balkans — and The Road is Wider Than Long is the extraordinary visual and literary record of that odyssey. Part travelogue, part surrealist poem, part photographic diary, the work chronicles his wanderings through Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia across July and August of that fateful year, weaving together verse, collage, and photography into a seamless, dreamlike whole. Published as No. 1 in the prestigious Series of Surrealist Poetry edited by E. L. T. Mesens by London Gallery Editions, this rare volume stands as a landmark of British Surrealism — a movement Penrose was central to, having co-organised the celebrated 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. His intimate friendship with Picasso, Man Ray, and Max Ernst suffuses the work with a cosmopolitan artistic sensibility, rendering landscape and encounter as something simultaneously personal and mythic. A document of a vanishing Europe captured in the last light before war, the work leaves the reader with an indelible question: what does it mean to travel toward the unknown when the world itself is already transforming beyond recognition?
Author: Roland Penrose
Format: Paperback
Published: 1938, London Gallery Editions
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the blazing summer of 1938, with Europe teetering on the edge of catastrophe, the British Surrealist artist and poet Roland Penrose embarked on a journey through the Balkans — and The Road is Wider Than Long is the extraordinary visual and literary record of that odyssey. Part travelogue, part surrealist poem, part photographic diary, the work chronicles his wanderings through Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia across July and August of that fateful year, weaving together verse, collage, and photography into a seamless, dreamlike whole. Published as No. 1 in the prestigious Series of Surrealist Poetry edited by E. L. T. Mesens by London Gallery Editions, this rare volume stands as a landmark of British Surrealism — a movement Penrose was central to, having co-organised the celebrated 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. His intimate friendship with Picasso, Man Ray, and Max Ernst suffuses the work with a cosmopolitan artistic sensibility, rendering landscape and encounter as something simultaneously personal and mythic. A document of a vanishing Europe captured in the last light before war, the work leaves the reader with an indelible question: what does it mean to travel toward the unknown when the world itself is already transforming beyond recognition?