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After arguments at my parents' house...

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Author André Breton
People cited Marguerite Breton, Louis Breton

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Handwritten manuscript by André Breton, undated, in a folder titled ‘Dream Manuscripts’.

Dreams... the oldest dates from 1931, the most recent from the post-war period; in them we see the appearance of figures Breton knew well from various periods, such as his parents, René Char in the first one, or Robert Denoël in the third... Les Vases communicants repeats part of the text from April 1931 and ‘Trajectoire du rêve’ quotes two from 1938, but unlike the dream accounts published sporadically by Breton or collected in the unpublished material in his Complete Works, these are texts written for his own use, with no concern for literary matters. Moreover, they are clearly very intimate in nature and some include drawings, both these aspects giving them an ‘extraliterary’ character, even if one should take care in use this term in the context of the surrealists. Whatever the case, we can note that they really don’t suit being put into literary form, other than through extensive reworking that would thus change their nature. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript, in a folder titled by André Breton ‘Dream Manuscripts’. 
- 4 in-12 pages, a dream written out by Breton in pencil.
‘She dangles like a spark from a rope hung from the marvellous ceiling. Come back to me, these magnificent cruel eyes are welcoming yet I think about taking her to Paris but is that really possible (as in nearly escaping because I had put her back in another corridor, I am told of my mistake just in time) she makes astonishing feminine gestures like the two buttons of the collar of a white coat.’ [Auction catalogue, 2003 ; Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, 2022]

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Dreams

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André Breton

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Handwritten manuscript by André Breton dated 10-11 April 1938 and illustrated with a drawing.

Four images, a descripion, a bibliography, a library.

[AB's Manuscripts] Unpublished Manuscripts of Dreams