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Astral theme: elements for Fata Morgana

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton
People cited Isabeau de Bavière, Jean Bessat, Robert Bourjoi

Description

Handwritten pages from a notebook dating from late 1940 and early 1941, various notes.

Numbers. Snippets of text. A drawing bringing together the wheel of the various astronomical signs. Rates for stamps and telegrams... It is a veritable Prévert inventory born from reading these notes haphazardly cast into a notebook at the time when Breton was starting to think of a poem ‘How pretty it is. / What does it recall?’ It will, of course, be Fata Morgana, the landmark work of 1940, one of the peaks of Breton's poetry, the first ideas for which we find here. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten texts, sd..
- 4 pages in-18 self-contained from a book of notes handwritten by Breton in green ink, red ink and pencil, and black pencil. Handwritten notes and calculations and an astrological chart. [sale catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

André Breton, Fata Morgana, Œuvres complètes, tome II, (Édition établie par Marguerite Bonnet avec les contributions de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, p. 1186-1187