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Meetings of 22, 23 and 26 October 1925

Meetings of the Bureau de Recherches surréalistes

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Authors Jacques-André Boiffard, Marcel Fourrier, Michel Leiris, André Breton, Benjamin Péret, Raymond Queneau
People cited Louis Aragon, Reynor ou Pierre Bernard, Jean Bernier, Béraud, Duloi, Paul Guitard, Henri Lefebvre, Filipo Tomaso Marinetti, Pierre de Massot, Pierre Morhange, Max Morise, Marcel Noll, Gérard Rosenthal, dit parfois Francis Gérard, Hénoque, dit Dédé Sunbeam, Colette Jeramec, Antonin Artaud, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Jacques Viot

Description

Manuscript archives of the meetings of the Bureau de recherches surréalistes of 22, 23 and 26 October 1925.

In the space of a few meetings, from 22 to 26 October 1925, the committee bringing together the members of Clarté and the surrealists appeared to be getting organised; absences were sanctioned, note was taken of those unavailable to provide their signatures, such as that of the young Raymond Queneau, who had been called up for military service. Aragon and Breton proposed a motion: “Revolution can only be conceived by us in its economic and social form”, which implied moving closer to Communism. On 8 November a text along these lines appeared in L'Humanité, repeating some of the wording of the motion. The members of Philosophies group, when they didn't ‘skip’ the meetings, were less radical than their friends from Clarté and the surrealists. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Autograph manuscripts, 22, 23 and 26 October 1925.

Meetings of 22, 23 and 26 October 1925.

- 3 pages in-4° on blue paper, handwritten, titled and dated, “Meetings of the 22 and 26 October 1925. Report” in ink by André Breton and signed by Péret, Leiris, Morise, Desnos, Ernst, Masson, Queneau, P. de Massot, Tual, Sunbeam, Viot, Noll, Bernard, Guitard.

“1° The committee excludes J.-A. Boiffard (breach of confidentiality).

“2° They reserve Queneau's signature for the duration of his military service.”

- 5 pages in-4° handwritten, titled and dated, “Meeting of Monday, 26 October 1925’ in purple ink by Michel Leiris:

“Present: Aragon, Bernier, Breton, Fourrier. Éluard excused (an operation), Artaud: not excused, Lefèvre and Morhange: inexcusable absence”.

- 1 page in-12 handwritten and signed in ink by Raymond Queneau, requesting that the Committee no longer place his “signature at the bottom of manifestos - from 1 November”.

- 1 page in-12 entitled “The Case of Max Ernst” and signed by Paul Éluard.

- 1 page in-12 handwritten in ink and signed by Benjamin Péret.

- 1 handwritten letter dated Paris, 23 November 1925, 1 page in-4°, in ink and signed by Boiffard.

- 1/2 page in-8°, handwritten in ink by Pierre Bernard.

- 5 pages in-4° handwritten and titled in ink by Marcel Fourrier: “Meeting of Friday 22 October”.

- 3 oblong in-12 pages handwritten in ink by Marcel Fourrier, also signed by André Breton and Louis Aragon and inserted in a sheet headed by Marcel Fourrier: “Motion proposed by Aragon, Fourrier, Breton at the session of Friday 23 October 1925.”

(Archives du surréalisme, Volume 2, pages 59 to 77) [Auction Catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

- Marguerite Bonnet (présenté et annoté par), Archives du surréalisme publiées sous l'égide d'Actual, tome 2, Vers l'action politique, juillet 1925 – avril 1926, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, pages 59 à 77.

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