Description

Recueil d'essais publié à la Nouvelle Revue française à Paris en 1921. Le recueil est truffé d'une carte de l'auteur à Breton, datée de 1918.

Édition en partie originale.

Carte de Gide à Breton encartée (non reproduite) ainsi qu'une carte postale d'André Gide signée représentant le dieu de la guerre (Hawaiian Island) adressée à André Breton en 1918, avec ce texte autographe de Gide :

« Jamais je ne gagnerai tant de guerres. André Breton. André Gide. » (14 x 8,8 cm)

Gide cite une phrase de Jacques Vaché extraite du poème de Breton "Pour Lafcadio ", poème écrit sous le patronage de Gide.

Extraordinaire document reproduit dans le catalogue de l'exposition André Breton au Centre Pompidou en 1991. (Traces de restauration) [catalogue de la vente, 2003]

 

Bibliography

Paris, Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 1991, rep. p. 000

Notice Sudoc

Un article de Michel Murat « Le Classicisme de Gide »

Bibliographical material	Paris, N.R.F., 1921. In-16 broché.
Publication	first publication
Languages	French
Physical description	2 cartes postales encartées dans l'exemplaire. Une seule reproduite.
Size	15,00 cm
Illustrations	1 portrait en frontispice
Number of pages	466
Publisher	La Nouvelle Revue française, Librairie Gallimard, Paris
Reference	7427000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 598
Keywords	Diary, portraits, Fiction
Categories	Books, poems, fiction, non-fiction
Exhibition	André Breton, La Beauté convulsive
Permanent link	https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100193571

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Description

Last symbolist poems and first Dada poems of André Breton, all constituting Mont de piété [Pawnshop] and dating from 1914 to 1919. Torn out, copied by hand or by machine, almost all the poems of Mont de piété appear here. Running through the collection are the guiding lights of Breton’s youth: Symbolism and Valéry, Derain, Reverdy, and especially Apollinaire, omnipresent in the poem ‘Décembre’ [December], as elsewhere - from his dedication to poetic form, through this ‘bouchon de gui‘ [cap of mistletoe], which one would want to capitalize. ‘Décembre’ was published in L'Éventail [Array] on February 15, 1919, shortly after an article by Breton dedicated to... Guillaume Apollinaire, of course. This influence, at one time decisive though destined to be surpassed, was jettisoned by the young poet using his own texts in Mont de piété, which signals both an acknowledgment of a debt to his masters and bidding them farewell. A filial piety not without ambiguity... He kills off Apollinaire a second time (crushed under scaffolding...) in ‘Une maison peu solide’ [An Unstable House], dedicated this time to Tzara... Similarly, ‘Pour Lafcadio’ [For Lafcadio], which appears in the same bundle, attests to an admiration for the Gide of Les Caves du Vatican [The Vatican Cellars] - but it is published in Tzara's Zurich review, Dada (1919). One passes from one world to another. A text unpublished at the time, ‘À vous seule’ [To You Alone], published for the first time in the first volume of the Pléiade Œuvres complètes, completes the set: this time, it is Vaché we are mourning. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005] Seven autograph poems, one signed and one typescript signed, eight sheets. - ‘Pour Lafcadio’ [For Lafcadio], autograph poem, 1 page in-12 in black ink. - ‘Monsieur V.’ [Mister V], autograph poem signed, 1 page in-12 in blue ink. - ‘À vous seule’ [To You Alone], autograph poem, 1 page in-4° in blue ink. - ‘Façon’ [Mode], autograph poem, 1 page in-4° in blue ink. - ‘Décembre’ [December], autograph poem, 1 1/2 pages in blue ink; a poem dedicated to Guillaume Apollinaire. - ‘Poème’ [Poem], autograph poem, 1 page in-4° in blue ink, dated 19 February 1916; a poem dedicated to Léon-Paul Fargue. - ‘André Derain’, autograph poem, 1 page in-4° in blue ink. - Décembre’ [December], 1 page in-4° typescript, signed on the back by Breton in blue pencil. Enclosed are four printed proofs of Mont de Piété: ‘L'an suave’ [The Sweet Year], ‘Une maison peu solide’ [An Unstable House], ‘Façon’ [Mode], ‘Pour Lafcadio’ [For Lafcadio], each proof titled ‘Mont de Piété’ and signed by Breton. [Auction Catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Mont de Piété 1913-1919, Alentours I, et Inédits I, 1911-1919, Œuvres complètes, tome I, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, pages 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 et 43.

 

Creation date	1914 à 1919
Bibliographical material	Photocopy, MS, TS and print - black and blue inks.
Languages	French
Library	Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris : BRT8-BRT 13 ; BRT 14 ; BRT 15-BRT 16
Reference	4050000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2003
Keywords	Dada, Work notes, Poetry, symbolism, Publication
Categories	Andre Breton's Manuscripts
Set	[AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Permanent link	https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100335910

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