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Manuscripts of dream phrases, dated December 2, 1960, decorated with a drawing, drafted and signed.
12 images, a descriptive note, associated manuscripts, a bibliography.
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Undated manuscript signed by André Breton.
‘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]
Undated hand written manuscript signed by André Breton.
2 pages 1/2 in 12 of texts handwritten in ink by Breton on Médium letterhead, with some erasures and corrections, sentences from sleep or half-sleep are attached ‘Flower of lacquer... jesuitical in the blonde storm (the first automatic sentence I can recall, 1918?)‘... as well as texts printed in Le La. ‘The moon begins where the cherry ends with the lemon (night of 6 and 7 February 1913).’ [Auction catalogue, 2003]
Bibliography
– André Breton, Le La, P.-A. B. Alès, 1961.
– 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.
| Creation date | sd [circa 1953 - 1960] |
| Bibliographical material | 2 pages in-12 1/2 page in-12 - Ms - blue and black ink with Medium letterhead |
| Languages | French |
| Number of pages | 3 p. |
| Reference | 644000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2488 |
| Keywords | Work notes, Poetry, Dream, surréalisme (littérature), Automatic Writing |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [AB's Manuscripts] Poems-objects |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600101002174 |
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