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Anthology of black humour

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Author André Breton
People cited Alphonse Allais, Jean ou Hans Arp, Charles Baudelaire, Petrus Borel, Jean-Paul Brisset, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Tristan Corbière, Arthur Cravan, Charles Cros, Salvador Dalí, Georges Hippolyte Adrien, dit Georges Darien, Thomas De Quincey, Marcel Duchamp, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Marcelle Ferry, Xavier Forneret, Charles Fourier, André Gide, Christian-Dietrich Grabbe, G. I. Gurdjieff, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Eugène Ionesco, Alfred Jarry, Franz Kafka, Jean-François Lacenaire, Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, Joyce Mansour, Friedrich Nietzsche, Germain Nouveau, O'Henry, Oscar Panizza, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Benjamin Péret, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Allan Poe, Gisèle Prassinos, Jacques Prévert, Milo Rigaud, Arthur Rimbaud, Raymond Roussel, Pierre Roy, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Jonathan Swift, John Millington Synge, Jacques Vaché, Jakob Van Hoddis, Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

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List of authors for the reissue in May 1966 of Anthologie de l'humour noir published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert hand written by André Breton.

Jean-Jacques Pauvert re-issued the Anthologie de l'Humour noir in 1966. This list presented includes the main authors. Breton, either because he was tired or as a matter of principle, refused to add any recently discovered writers (like Ionesco), and justifies this in a preface whose rough draft also appears in the dossier: the poet reminds us that an anthology is not a directory, and that not everyone cannot be included... [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Hand written and signed manuscript and hand written documents, Paris, 16 May 1966.
- 1 page in 4° manuscript dated and monogramed in ink by Breton, with deletions and corrections of the text relating to the final edition of the Anthology of Black Humour.
‘The current revised edition makes some minor corrections to the previous one. It has purposely not been enlarged... the author is well aware of new figures appearing offering the same sort of illumination. He especially had to resist the temptation to add Oscar Panizza, Georges Darien, G. I. Gurdjieff, Eugène Ionesco and Joyce Mansour, but he abandoned doing so for obvious reasons.’
- Hand written list made by Breton of authors, poets, painters and philosophers to be included in the anthology’s list of contents, a list entitled ‘H. N.’.
- Hand-written list in ink by Breton, entitled ‘For 10th November’ comprising the names of Panizza, Darien, Gurdjieff, Ionesco, Joyce M(ansour) and Duprey under the heading ‘Notice and Choice’. [Auction Catalogue, 2003]