Description

Manuscript and typographical collage, these anonymous texts (by Louis Aragon, Georges Limbour?) of automatic writing date from 1924. Automatic writing, or rather semi-automatic writing – to the speed S, to use the typology imagined in Les Champs magnétiques [The Magnetic Fields]. The anonymous author of these pages could well be Aragon; a handwriting that graphically resembles his own, long sentences like those on which the author of Traité du style [Treatise on Style] prided himself, and above all an ease that manifests itself all the more as automatism is used as a springboard. Avoiding the ungainliness that often mars this type of writing, exploiting instead the liberation of poetic speech to play with the absurd, this text is sometimes extremely funny ("Cyclamen yourself”!). The collage poems that accompany it probably date from the same month of May 1924 when the whole group were in the fervour of having discovered a new game. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005] Autograph manuscript, 1924 8° exercise book containing eleven pages handwritten in red ink and ten pages of collage poems from press clippings. The first cover has a collage representing a woman's face. Text by Georges Limbour [from the Auction Catalogue]. "We are ready to roll the cigarettes double standards will begin at the golden door of flesh the shadows in relief seek and you will find the corpse cut in pieces a guy you don’t do this to." (Unstitched exercise book). [Auction Catalogue, 2003] In 2003 the Breton auction experts attributed this text to Limbour; the editor of the entries written after 2005, which contextualise the document, attributed it to Louis Aragon; in 2013, it seems that Aragon is not the scribe. So, perhaps it is Limbour? Seek and you will find... [Atelier André Breton website, 2013] "Given this exercise book is unsigned, due to strong probabilities we attribute it to Georges Limbour." [Georges Sebbag (ed.), Dix cahiers surrréalistes: April 1924, Jean-Michel Place/Dilecta, Paris, 2021, p.106]

Bibliography

- Georges Sebbag éd., Dix cahiers surrréalistes, avril 1924, Jean-Michel Place / Dilecta, Albias / Paris, 2021. Rep. p. 109 - 129.

 

Creation date	1924
Bibliographical material	Georges Sebbag (ed.), Dix cahiers surrréalistes: April 1924, Jean-Michel Place/Dilecta, Paris, 2021. Reproductions pp.109-129.
Languages	French
Physical description	Ms [11] et pages collage [10] - encre rouge cahier in-8°
Library	Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes : Ms 3487
Size	17,00 x 22,20 cm
Number of pages	20 p.
Reference	176000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2067
Keywords	Assemblage or collage, Poetry, Automatic Writing
Categories	Surrealists Manuscripts
Set	[Archives] textes surréalistes ; cahiers surréalistes ; cachet
Permanent link	https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100093700