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    The evening is a spade...

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    Author

    Author André Breton

    Description

    A prose poem by André Breton dated the morning of 8 May, 1946.

    Published for the first time in Section One of previously unpublished writings in the Œuvres complètes, Volume III, this prose poem is dated the morning of 8 May 1946. Written on the anniversary of the armistice, which André Breton celebrated in his own way by exalting liberation in poetry, as opposed to the regressive texts – poetically speaking – of certain former comrades promoted as Resistance poets. This prose poem takes up the thread of automatism and gives us one of his most fluid poems.

    Autograph manuscript signed 8 May 1946. - Signed autograph manuscript of a prose poem, 8 May 1946.

    Text handwritten by Breton in blue ink on an envelope.

    “The evening is a spade in the hands of a god. What he throws behind him onto the land falls upon little glass castles where star-coloured chambermaids perform...”

    Œuvres complètes, Volume III, Inédits I, pages 342 et 343. [Sale Catalogue, 2003]

    Bibliography

    André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Marie-Claire Dumas, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Inédits I, Œuvres complètes, tome III, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, pages 342 et 343.

     

    Creation date08-mai-46
    Bibliographical material

    Bibliographical material 1 envelope 9 x 16.5 cm handwritten in blue ink.

    Date of publication 1946
    LanguagesFrench
    Physical descriptionMs - dos d'enveloppe
    Size9,00 x 16,50 cm
    Reference493000
    Breton Auction, 2003Lot 2270
    Keywords, ,
    CategoriesAndre Breton's Manuscripts
    Set[AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
    Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100175740