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Poetry's Great Actuality

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Author

Author André Breton
People cited Louis Aragon, Charles Baudelaire, Lucie Schwob, dite Claude Cahun, Pierre Dupont, Sigmund Freud, Gisèle Prassinos, Arthur Rimbaud, Pierre Jean Jouve, Tristan Tzara

Description

Handwritten manuscript written in green ink on pink paper, titled and signed by André Breton, dated November 1934.
Handwritten manuscript of 3 pages in-4° folioed, numbered 1, 2 and 6 in green ink on pink paper, titled, dated and signed by Breton.

‘Those poets since Rimbaud who have been working to free poetry from the rational are well aware (even if they don’t think they know it) that they discovered in the unconscious, or at least in thought influenced as far as possible by the unconscious, some ancient and new sources, and that this brought them a new aim for everyone ... and that it was poets (Lautréamont, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, finally Baudelaire) who said this before Freud…’ (Manuscript folio pages 3, 4 and 5 missing). [sale catalogue, 2003]

 Minotaure, all numbers.

*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.

Bibliography

André Breton, « La Grande Actualité poétique », Minotaure n° 6, décembre 1934, p. 61-62

André Breton, Alentours I, Œuvres complètes, tome II, (Édité par Marguerite Bonnet avec des contributions de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, p. 540-550, Notes p. 1639-1641.