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Response to an enquiry in La Nacion

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Author André Breton
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Manuscript of an interview with Breton by Eugenio F. Granell published in Spanish in the Dominican newspaper La Nacion on 28 May 1941.

Published in Spanish translation in La Nacion, a newspaper in Ciudad Trujillo (Dominican Republic), this text answers questions from Eugenio Fernandez Granell, a Spanish exile. It was published in Alentours I in the third volume of the Oeuvres complètes , under the title ‘Entretien avec E. F. Granell’. Breton copied his answers, some of which he would take up again in a more accomplished version of this text (but whose main points are almost identical), was published in the Inédits I of the third volume of the Oeuvres complètes , under the title ‘Réponse à une enquête de Pierre Mabille’, with the editors specifying that they weren’t sure about Mabille's name; in the much-erased version we have here, the originator of the enquiry is a Hispanic review. Breton gives a summary of what he has experienced since the phoney war. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Signed handwritten manuscript, sd [May 1941].
- 3 pages in-4° handwritten in green ink, titled ‘Answer to an enquiry of La Nacion (Cindad Trujillo)’, and signed by André Breton:
‘Most of my friends are totally unable to deal with the new regime, whether the one in Paris or that in Vichy. Some immediately placed all of their hopes in the United States, where I expect to find them or wait for them. Almost all of those who unwillingly remain are deprived of any public means of expression.’ Numerous erasures and corrections. [sale catalogue, 2003]

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

Bibliography

André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Marie-Claire Dumas, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), « [Entretien avec E. F. Granell] », [Alentours I], Œuvres complètes, tome III, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, p. 121-125.

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Response to an enquiry by Pierre Mabille

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Handwritten manuscript by André Breton responding to Pierre Mabille’s enquiry dated 16 June 1941.
Two images, a descriptive note, a bibliography.

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