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I marry Consuelo...

Dream

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Author

Author André Breton
People cited Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Louis Breton

Description

Handwritten manuscript by André Breton dated 26 December 1933.

Dreams... the oldest dates from 1931, the most recent from the post-war period; in them we see the appearance of figures Breton knew well from various periods, such as his parents, René Char in the first one, or Robert Denoël in the third... Les Vases communicants repeats part of the text from April 1931 and ‘Trajectoire du rêve’ quotes two from 1938, but unlike the dream accounts published sporadically by Breton or collected in the unpublished material in his Complete Works, these are texts written for his own use, with no concern for literary matters. Moreover, they are clearly very intimate in nature and some include drawings, both these aspects giving them an ‘extraliterary’ character, even if one should take care in use this term in the context of the surrealists. Whatever the case, we can note that they really don’t suit being put into literary form, other than through extensive reworking that would thus change their nature. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript, 25-26 December 1933.
I marry Consuelo..., 2 in-12 pages in ink on blue paper in the hand of André Breton:
'I marry Consuelo... (At the same time?) I make love with Consuelo in a bedroom whose connecting door remains open despite my protests. The maid even continues to wash the parquet floor around the bed, she has the temerity to continue as though we weren’t there. My father reproaches me for not having taken care of the price of the hotels. Even though he had never met Consuelo up to that moment, he pays her no attention. She seems very tired, older, but all of a sudden she’s a little child, a baby disguised with pieces of paper stuck to her face.' Dream of 25/26 December 1933. [Auction catalogue, 2003; Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, 2022]