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Heloise - Lautréamont

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton
People cited Attila, Héloïse, Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, Sever, Ursule

Description

An undated and unsigned handwritten manuscript.

Heloise and Lautréamont: two cards from the 1940 Jeu de Marseille, whose figures Breton takes up by drawing up a list of analogies - animal (killer whale), situation, cultural and religious motifs (The Lady of the Unicorn, Jewish and Islamic traditions), as if the game itself became a pretext for another game, this one of pure imagination. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten text, Paris.
3 pages in-12, handwritten in blue ink by André Breton, the first entitled ‘Héloise’ and the other two ‘Lautréamont’, with erasures and corrections.
‘Heloise:
‘A stabbed dove.
‘Born from an inextinguishable ember and an apple tree in bloom [sic]
‘440 BCE. Representation of Antigone [...]
‘The wound in the cup’ with an original drawing by André Breton of a cup.
‘Lautréamont
Killer whale (or orka): whalekiller [...]
In the 4th century: Attila falls in love with Ursula and asks her to marry him (the episode of the 11,000 virgins) [...].
‘The Lucifer in The Monk [...]
‘Jean-Valentin Andrae: The Chemical Wedding
‘Corrupting children.’ [sale catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

André Breton, ‘[Carte d'analogie] : Héloïse, Lautréamont‘, Œuvres complètes, volume IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes (Edition established by Marguerite Bonnet and edited by Étienne-Alain Hubert with contributions from Philippe Bernier and Marie-Claire Dumas), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, note p. 1476.