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[The O3 whose skin cracks reside...]

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton

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Manuscript signed by André Breton and dated 27-28 October 1951.

‘In the sands of dream there will always be a shovel in the wind.’ Again taking up some striking sentences like those in 1924 he said had ‘tapped at the window’, in 1960 Breton presented a kind of anthology of these strange sayings that appear in the course of a dream or upon awakening. The collection, entitled Le La, would be published in November 1961 in P.-A.B. editions, in Alès, with a lithograph by Jean Benoît.

The scraps of the manuscript gathered here are of interest in giving clues as to how Breton materially conceived this work of bibliophilia. So we have the different states of a collection conceived as a beautiful object, the wager of which would be to highlight and emphasise the singular strength of each of the sentences. [site Atelier André Breton, 2005]

Hand written manuscript signed by André Breton and dated 27-28 October 1951.

1 page in 4° hand written in ink on pink paper and monographed by Breton: ‘The O3 in the cracking of skin generally resides in C major. A sentence heard in a dream during the night of 27 to 28 October 1951 (noted immediately)’. [Auction Catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

André Breton(Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier et Marie-Claire Dumas), Le La, Œuvres complètes, volume IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, p. 343.