Description

Manuscript text written in August 1928 by André Breton, whilst staying with Suzanne Muzard in Moret-sur-Loing.

These are manuscripts written at the end of August 1928, during a stay at Moret-sur-Loing with Suzanne Muzard. She had just asked André Breton to obtain a divorce, which he would request from Simone that autumn, and in that turbulent atmosphere the decision was taken at the end of October. On 1 December, Suzanne married Emmanuel Berl. This was a both mournful and complicated period, as witnessed by the tone of the poems (‘The ship had made no progress in a century’, and the tears welling up in one place or another). (1 to 35). [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

 

Handwritten manuscript, 29-30 August 1928.
- ‘The diamond cutting workshop’, handwritten notebook by André Breton, Moret, 29 August 1928. These automatic writing texts date from Breton’s stay at Moret-sur-Loing with Suzanne Muzard, the inspiration for his poem ‘l'Union libre’, at the end of August 1928.
‘Suzanne I see immense portraits

Because of a tress of hair that’s ten times too long 

I see the mirror breaking beneath the soldiers 

All is silent like the ark’s golden age 

Imagination is a flower bed of broken lances 

In imagination I find nothing but the heart’s grace

I see the Templars in their immemorial habits 

In my dream they are scattered and distant 

What I adore what nothing would induce me to burn 

Suzanne you who are the very form of fire.’

- 1 handwritten text of half an in-8° page by Breton is also included. [Auction catalogue, 2003]

 

Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Bibliography

André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Inédits III, Œuvres complètes, tome I, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, pages 1043 à 1049.

 

Creation date	29-08-1928
Bibliographical material	In-8° school notebook with 9 handwritten pages in ink with deletions and corrections. André Breton, Inédits III, Œuvres complètes, volume I (edited by Marguerite Bonnet with contributions from Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert and José Pierre), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, pp. 1043-49.
Languages	French
Physical description	cahier ms [5 R°, 4V°]
Library	Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris : BRT 57
Reference	1855000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2141
Keywords	Work notes, Poetry, Travel, Automatic Writing
Categories	Andre Breton's Manuscripts
Set	[AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Permanent link	https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100461720