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Lettre signée d'André Hardellet à André Breton, datée du 26 janvier 1960.

Révélé en 1958 par Le Seuil du jardin, un roman qu'on trouve encore aujourd'hui en collection de poche, André Hardellet croise à quelques reprises la route de Breton. Celui-ci admire le « goût de l'étrange » qui se donne à lire dans ses romans, et l'invite à collaborer à l'Exposition internationale du surréalisme (Eros) organisée chez Daniel Cordier en 1959. L'érotisme est en effet l'une des clés de l'écriture de Hardellet ; mais celui-ci donne dans les deux textes conservés ici par Breton d'autres exemples de son talent, avec une étude sur « Le rêve de Maury » (déjà évoqué dans Le Seuil du jardin) et une nouvelle étonnante intitulée La Montre parfaite. [Site Atelier André Breton, 2005]

Lettre autographe signée, datée du 26 janvier 1960.
- 2 pages in-4°, lettre autographe signée à André Breton dans laquelle Hardellet propose à Breton d'insérer le manuscrit intitulé « La Dégradation », qu'il joint à cette lettre, dans la revue Bief. [Catalogue de la vente, 2003]

 

Creation date	26/01/1960
Postmarked date	26/01/1960
Destination address	André Breton 42, rue Fontaine Paris IXe
Bibliographical material	2 pages in-8° - Ms - encre noire - enveloppe conservée
Languages	French
Place of origin	André Hardellet 44, rue Beaubourg Paris IIIe
Library	Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris : BRET 2.15
Number of pages	2 p.
Reference	1512000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2491
Keywords	Letter, Reviews and Journals
Categories	Correspondence, Letters to André Breton
Set	[Correspondance] Correspondance avec Hardellet, [Revue] Bief
Permanent link	https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600101000188

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Lettre d'Édouard-Léon-Théodore à André Breton, adressée de Londres au 42 rue Fontaine le 17 février 1960.

Est jointe une lettre autographe signée de E.L.T. Mesens à André Breton, 3 pages in-4° à l'encre rehaussée de couleurs relative à BIEF et à différentes revues londoniennes. (enveloppe conservée). [catalogue de la vente, 2003]

La lettre truffait la collection des exemplaires de Bief, jonction surréaliste d'André Breton. [Site André Breton, 2020]

 

Creation date	17/02/1960
Destination address	André Breton 42, rue Fontaine Paris IXe
Bibliographical material	Ms, encre noire avec dessins en couleur - trois pages in-4°. Enveloppe conservée.
Languages	French
Place of origin	149, Montaigu Mansions, London W1
Number of pages	3
Reference	9619000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 1181
Keywords	Correspondence, Letter, Reviews and Journals
Categories	Correspondence, Letters to André Breton
Set	[Correspondance] Lettres de Mesens, [Revue] Bief
Permanent link	https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600101001265

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Manuscript by André Breton written on 26 October 1958 for the first issue of the journal BIEF, Jonction surréaliste.

Published in the first issue of Bief (15 Novermber 1958), these reading notes constitute a stern rebuke against a hoax by Jean Dutourd, who by inventing a German revolutionary from the 1840s and having him meet Marx and others, was in Breton’s view guilty of a fairly unpardonable joke to the extent that fiction might pass for reality. What Dutourd had committed was thus a betrayal of historic figures who were not to be treated lightly unless one had bad intentions. [André Breton website, 2005]

Signed handwritten manuscript, Paris, 26 October 1958
1 1/4 in-4° pages of first draft manuscript in ink by André Breton, with many deletions and corrections, of a text relating to an article by Jean Dutourd published in the August 1958 edition of the N.R.F. about Ludwig Schnorr, ‘a German revolutionary from the previous century’ whose destiny could remind us of that of Karl Marx.

‘The significance of this kind of announcement, which implicates Fichte and Hegel, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Flora Tristan and Proudhon, Marx and Engels and testifies to the most striking encounters with Lamartine and Hugo, wouldn’t in any way risk being diminished if, despite the profusion of supporting references and explanations, a certain threshold of plausibility hadn’t pretty quickly been crossed… Among the evidence it claims, at least one piece of it could have been called upon for confirmation. It is that of Henri Guillemin, from whom Dutourd quotes at length, with full consent so he claims, from an unpublished fragment from an equally unpublished quotation from Hugo’s notebooks dated 17 June 1861, one that is likely to plague the most basic common sense even more violently than all the rest of it... Henri Guillemin cites the supposed passage from Hugo’s Carnets: "She (Juliette) forgets that the viscount Hugo had henceforth become a democrat and that in his eyes any woman is the equal of all others and that his preferences lean towards the most destitute of them, and that he was right to have all the greater respect for those who need to work to survive, but there’s no use being difficult about the bodies he might embrace. The aged poet is transported in a frenzy of caresses and indulgences. Neither the darkest thoughts, the promises, the proximity of death, nor the death of his second son in front of his very eyes were enough to stop him from going to see Blanche every day and delight in her flesh” (sic). In wishing to establish that Hugo was even prepared to covet his own servants, it goes without saying that anyone proceeding in such a meticulous fashion with what he calls “the audit of his gratifications” is dealing with ideas like a veritable slattern. For him, sexual obsession takes on a parasitical aspect, in a belittling and beyond moralising turn that is by far the most regrettable. Here we have a sniffer dog working for a bailiff’s scruples.’
[Auction catalogue, 2003]

 

Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Bibliography

Bief, Jonction surréaliste, n°1, 15 novembre 1958.

Creation date	26/10/1958
Bibliographical material	2 in-4° pages.
Languages	French
Physical description	Ms - encre bleue
Number of pages	2
Reference	623000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2460
Keywords	Work notes, Politics, Reviews and Journals
Categories	Manuscripts, Andre Breton's Manuscripts
Set	[AB's Manuscripts] Manuscripts 1958-1966, [Revue] Bief
Permanent link	https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100300800

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