Description

Manuscript by André Breton filed as ‘unclassifiable’, among drawings by Robert Desnos and texts from the early 1920s. This text in André Breton’s handwriting is filed as… ‘unclassifiable’, a brown folder in which he has placed together, mostly, drawings by Desnos and texts that appear to date from the very early 1920s. One could, if one were to cross-reference it with the few indications in Breton’s Entrée des mediums [The Mediums Enter], assume that these are notes dictated by a sleeping René Crevel - Crevel who, according to Breton, made a specialty of "criminal stories" during these sessions. The minor 'stage directions', such as bis [again], would be consistent with dictation, in any case. A recurring motif in this text, which contributes greatly to its strangeness, is the question of dreams: am I dreaming? There remains the relative coherence, the novelistic quality of certain aspects, which makes the reader float between the hypothesis of a particularly elaborate ‘sleeping fit’ and a dream narrative reconstructed afterwards. 2 large in-4° pages (with frayed margins) in black pencil inserted inside a sheet of paper dated Thursday. "The six bullets from my Browning will find six brains. "Do you think this is the first time I have responded to invisible voices that are not the voices of Providence?”

Creation date	1922
Bibliographical material	2 large pages in-4° in black pencil, with frayed margins, inserted in a sheet dated Thursday.
Date of publication	1922
Languages	French
Physical description	Ms - crayon noir
Library	Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris : BRT 161
Method of acquisition and collection	Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris, don Aube et Oona Elléouët
Reference	21000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2026
Keywords	Work notes, Psychoanalysis, Dream, Automatic Writing
Categories	Manuscripts, Surrealists Manuscripts
Set	[Manuscripts] Sommeils
Permanent link	https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100153480