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[Manuscripts] Sommeils

 Les Sommeils regroupent, dans l'atelier d'André Breton, les manuscrits de ses amis écrits en état de sommeil, ou sous la dictée d'un rêveur. Ils sont pour la plupart regroupés à la Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris.

« Sommeils (Époque des) - La fin de l'année 1922 apporte au surréalisme un élément neuf. C'est l'époque des sommeils... Il s'agissait d'aller chercher au fond du sommeil hypnotique les secrètes réponses du subconscient. 1922, année des grands discours hypnotiques de Robert Desnos, jours de Rrose Sélavy et de ses hallucinantes sentences où règne l'esprit vitrifié de Marcel Duchamp. » (G. H.) Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalisme.

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Rene Crevel's era

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Brief commentary probably from Les Sommeils, dated 1 November 1922 and annotated by Éluard.
An image, a description, links, a library.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils, [Journal] Littérature

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Thursday?

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Manuscript by André Breton filed as ‘unclassifiable’, among drawings by Robert Desnos and texts from the early 1920s. Three images, a description, links, a collection.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Les Médiums

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Robert Desnos

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Dicté à vive allure par Robert Desnos à André Breton, ce manuscrit au crayon datant de 1922.
Neuf images, une description, des liens, une bibliothèque.

[Manuscripts] dossier Robert Desnos, [Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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Benjamin Péret

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Undated sleeping fit, probably by Benjamin Péret, made up of three pages.

Three images, a description, some links, a library.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sommeil

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René Crevel, non identifié, Benjamin Péret

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Manuscrit au crayon classé parmi des « Documents Crevel et Péret » par André Breton et symptomatique des Sommeils.
Une image, une description, des liens, une bibliothèque.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping Fit

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Four pages of text, one of which is illustrated with pencil portraits, dating from late 1922. Five images, a descriptive note, links, a collection.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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Manuscript in pencil of an annotated sleeping fit by Desnos in 1922.
Four images, a description, a library, some links. 

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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René Crevel, Robert Desnos, non identifié, Benjamin Péret

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Seven-page manuscript of an active sleeping fit by Desnos, Péret or Crevel, dated 1922. Seven images, a description, links, a collection.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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Robert Desnos

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Drawings by Desnos made during a sleeping fit session in 1922.
Eight images, a description, some links, a library.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Question / answer

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Robert Desnos

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Desnos speaks, replies to questions and writes, often briefly (‘Yes’, ‘No’) and sometimes at greater length in this manuscript of a particularly fertile session of sleeping fits.
86 images, a description, some links, a library. 

[Exhibitions] 1991, boîte archives bleue, Beaubourg, [Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit of Robert Desnos

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Robert Desnos

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Handwritten fragments and drawings from Desnos' sleeping fits, dating from 1922. Five images, a description, links, a collection.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Robert Desnos' Sleeping fit

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Robert Desnos

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Abstract drawings and the manuscript of a Robert Desnos sleeping fit annotated by Breton dating from 1922.

13 images, a description, links, a library.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit by Robert Desnos

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Robert Desnos

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Manuscripts and drawings from a sleeping fit representing portraits of the surrealists. 

14 images, a description, some links, a library. 

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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Robert Desnos, non identifié

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Handwritten fragments of conversation with a dreamer, probably dating from 1922. Two images, a description, links, a collection.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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Robert Desnos

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Manuscript of a particularly extraordinary sleeping fit of Desnos from 1922. Sixteen images, a description, links, a collection.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit

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Robert Desnos

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Manuscripts and drawings of a sleeping fit by Desnos who, asleep and questioned by Breton, produces troubling prophecies.
Nine images, a description, some links, a bibliography.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Dessins Sommeils

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Robert Desnos

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Cinq sommeils dessinés de et par Robert Desnos en 1922, accompagnés d'une note autographe d'André Breton.
Cinq images, une notice descriptive, des liens, une bibliothèque.

[Manuscripts] dossier Robert Desnos, [Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sommeil

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André Breton, Robert Desnos, non identifié

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Manuscrit autographe non daté, au verso d'un papier à en-tête « Congrès de Paris ».
Deux images, une notice descriptive, une bibliothèque, des liens.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Sleeping fit by Robert Desnos of 27 September 1922

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Robert Desnos

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Desnos’ replies to questions by Breton in a sleeping fit of 27 September 1922.
13 images, a description, some links, a library.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils

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Rene Crevel's first sleeping fit

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René Crevel

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René Crevel’s first ‘sleeping fit’, transcribed by Robert Desnos, dated 28th September 1922, three days after the very first of them on the 25th.
10 images, a description, a bibliography, some links, a library.

[Manuscripts] Sommeils, [Journal] Littérature