Author André BretonPeople cited Sigmund Freud, Ernst Jünger, Roberto Echauren Matta
‘Lumière noire’ [Black Light], a text written in New York and published in December 1943 in a Canadian magazine, Le Monde libre, reprinted in Arcane 17.
Opposing a certain aesthetics of war such as can be found in Ernst Jünger, for example, Breton's text dreams of "repassioning life", analysing the pre-war period as a situation of boredom, of stagnation of thought. Surrealism, then, appears as a real alternative to the war’s shameful diversion, the "definitive suppression" of which Breton is imagining here. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Corrected proofs, New York, 1943.
- Signed corrected proofs of ‘Lumière noire’ from the two in-4° sheets of Le Monde libre n° 2 of 1943, a periodical published in Montreal, with autograph corrections by André Breton, dated New York 1943, presumably in view of the publication of this text in the edition of Arcane 17 enté d'ajours. [Auction Catalogue, 2003]
- André Breton, « Lumière noire », Le Monde libre, vil I, n°2, décembre 1943, p. 165-168
- André Breton, (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Marie-Claire Dumas, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), « Lumière noire », Arcane 17 enté d'Ajours, Œuvres complètes, tome III, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, p. 100-106.
| Creation date | 1943 |
| Bibliographical material | Corrected proofs, New York, 1943. |
| Date of publication | 1943 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Impr. - marques de corrections au crayon |
| Library | |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2246 |
| Keywords | Arcane 17, New York, Politics, Reviews and Journals |
| Categories | Archives, Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] L'Amour fou, Arcane 17, Les Vases communicants, |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100500210 |
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Original handwritten manuscript of the first draft of Arcane 17 written in Québec and signed by André Breton. 20 August - 20 October 1944. Manuscript of the Ajours dated 1 June 1947.
58 images, a long description, exhibitions, a bibliography, a library.
[AB's Manuscripts] L'Amour fou, Arcane 17, Les Vases communicants,
