Null (Corti) [Revue] (BRETON, André, ARAGON, Louis, SOUPAULT, Philipe, Direction…

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(Corti) [Revue] (BRETON, André, ARAGON, Louis, SOUPAULT, Philipe, Direction de) : LITERATURE from n°1 of March 1919 to n°12 of February 1920 then New Series: n°1 of March 1922; n°5 of October 1922; n°6 of November 1922 and from n°8 of January 1923 to n°10 of May 1923.18 issues in-8°. The first 12 bound in 1 volume half black basane with the bradel with preserved covers, not trimmed. And the 6 other numbers, stapled with covers illustrated by Picabia. For these last 6 issues, the flying hors-texte (Max Ernest; Man Ray; Picabia. G. de Chirico) are present except for the one of the n°10 of the new series. The cover of the n°1 of the new series is detached and with small lacks. André Breton retained the title of Literature proposed by Paul Valéry, inspired by a poetic art of Verlaine (1874) which has for last sentence: "And all the rest is literature". Breton will say that the adoption of the title was done by antiphrase, in a spirit of derision.

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(Corti) [Revue] (BRETON, André, ARAGON, Louis, SOUPAULT, Philipe, Direction de) : LITERATURE from n°1 of March 1919 to n°12 of February 1920 then New Series: n°1 of March 1922; n°5 of October 1922; n°6 of November 1922 and from n°8 of January 1923 to n°10 of May 1923.18 issues in-8°. The first 12 bound in 1 volume half black basane with the bradel with preserved covers, not trimmed. And the 6 other numbers, stapled with covers illustrated by Picabia. For these last 6 issues, the flying hors-texte (Max Ernest; Man Ray; Picabia. G. de Chirico) are present except for the one of the n°10 of the new series. The cover of the n°1 of the new series is detached and with small lacks. André Breton retained the title of Literature proposed by Paul Valéry, inspired by a poetic art of Verlaine (1874) which has for last sentence: "And all the rest is literature". Breton will say that the adoption of the title was done by antiphrase, in a spirit of derision.

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Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript, signed at head, Aragon vous parle de lui-même, [1959]; 6pages in-4, with a few erasures and corrections. Very fine text by Aragon on his poetry (published in France Nouvelle, weekly of the French Communist Party, December 17, 1959). "How to speak of oneself when the world resounds with the sound of tragedy... and life swept away by the waters of Malpasset, Fréjus under the relentless rain, bodies dredged off the coast of Saint-Raphaël, and these dramas conveyed to me by the faces of Anne Philipe, Michèle Morgan [...] It's precisely tragedy that André Malraux, whose casualness in judging Racine I didn't much like, has made his hobbyhorse in national theaters. Blame him if you will. I don't feel like arguing with him [...] I can't deny him a sense of tragedy, and that's his business if he associates himself with this kind of comedy-bouffe that turns Ministers of Education or Culture into characters from Flers and Caillavet"... In connection with an anthology of his poems, Aragon evokes "these forgotten reflections, scattered throughout my life [...] A poem is dated like an article [...] so it is understandable that, rereading myself, I see, in the mirror, over my shoulder, a world that the verses as much as myself show me, the diary of the time crossed, the history of others, which is also my history". Aragon dwells on Feu de joie, written in 1918 and "published at the same time as André Breton's Mont de Piété, marked by this voluntary divorce from the Mallarmism of his early youth (which I may remain the only one to love against the poet himself), this extreme science of traditional verse, to throw himself into the fire of a modernism that was not yet surrealism". He recalls the genesis of Surrealism's "particular conjuration" around the magazine Littérature, with Soupault, Eluard, Tzara who came from Zurich "to explode the Dada bomb here", joining the Communist Party in 1927, and the clashes with his friends "over the very conception of poetry"; and Aragon then recopies a poem from Feu de joie, the Couplet de l'Amant d'Opéra, and wonders about certain poems directly linked to history... "We will only have been the circumstance, the trace of a step. Perhaps, however, whoever finds life beneath our words, behind the words the pulse of history, of our passage, of our futility, will be able to deduce both the road travelled, and the path of this Man to whom we capitalize like a fig leaf to statues, the meaning at least of his march, of our tragedy".

Estim. 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

André BRETON (1896-1966). Autograph manuscript, André Breton, November 17, 1944; 2pages in-4. Autobiographical note. The manuscript is overloaded with erasures and corrections. After mentioning his birth in Tinchebray in 1896, and his medical studies: "At the age of 17, was strongly attracted by Paul Valéry", with whom he had "very close relations". Then came mobilization and his posting to neuro-psychiatric centers, his discovery of Freud, whom he met in Vienna; his "long association with Guillaume Apollinaire, in his opinion the greatest poet of this century", and his "momentous encounter" with Jacques Vaché, the publication of his first collection Mont de Piété, the founding of the magazine Littérature with Soupault and Aragon, the Dada movement, the writing with Soupault of Champs magnétiques, "the first truly Surrealist work", the break with Dada, the founding and rise of Surrealism: "If one part of this work is socially oriented, another tends towards the resolution of conflicts of the most general psychological order: the opposition of madness and reason, of dream and action, of mental representation and physical perception"... He comments briefly on his works, from the Manifesto of Surrealism to Arcane 17; and he mentions his "speaker's duties at 'La Voix de l'Amérique'", the founding of the VVV magazine, and so on. Former Jacques Millot collection (Bibliothèque du Professeur Millot, June 15, 1991, no. 21).

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

SURREALISM. 10 printed leaflets (2 with slightly frayed edges). Lautréamont envers et contre tout, [April 1927], by L. Aragon, A. Breton and P. Eluard. Avis, contre une exposition de Chirico, Bruxelles mars 1928, by L. Aragon, A. Breton, C. Goemans, P. Nougé. Prière d'insérer for Salvador Dali's La Femme visible, [November? 1930], by A. Breton and P. Eluard. Au Feu, [May 1931, on pink paper], by M. Alexandre, Aragon, A. Breton, P. Eluard, R. Char, R. Crevel, P. Eluard, G. Malkine, B. Péret, G. Sadoul, Y. Tanguy, A. Thirion, P. Unik. Ne visitez pas l'Exposition Coloniale, [May 1931], by M. Alexandre, Aragon, A. Breton, P. Eluard, R. Char, R. Crevel, P. Eluard, G. Malkine, B. Péret, G. Sadoul, Y. Tanguy, A. Thirion, P. Unik. Premier bilan de l'Exposition Coloniale, July 3, 1931, by M. Alexandre, Aragon, A. Breton, R. Char, R. Crevel, P. Eluard, G. Malkine, B. Péret, G. Sadoul, Y. Tanguy, A. Thirion, P. Unik. L'Affaire Aragon, [January 132], by M. Alexandre, A. Breton, R. Char, R. Crevel, P. Eluard, G. Malkine, P. Massot, B. Péret, G. Sadoul, Y. Tanguy, A. Thirion, P. Unik. Autour d'un poème [d'Aragon], April 5, 1932, by M. Alexandre and P. Unik. La mobilisation contre la guerre n'est pas la paix, [June 1933], by A. Breton, R. Caillois, R. Char, R. Crevel, P. Eluard,J.M. Monnerot, B. Péret, G. Rosey, Y. Tanguy, A. Thirion. Some works by Picabia (Dada period 1915-1925), for a 1951 exhibition, by A. Breton, J.H. Lévesque, P. de Massot.

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