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[It costs me a lot...] (II)

Letter dated 16 September 1957

Correspondence

Author

Author André Breton
Letter to René Alleau

Description

Second draft of a letter from André Breton to René Alleau concerning Le Surréalisme, même, 16 September 1957.

Correspondence relating to the journal Le Surréalisme, même, allowing us to date all of these letters from between 1956 and 1959. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten letter signed and dated Paris, 16 September 1957.Handwritten letter dated Paris, 16 September 1957, signed by André Breton to René Alleau, concerning the reservations expressed by the surrealists regarding René Alleau's text ‘The Nave and the City’.

The text of first draft of this letter by André Breton as well as René Alleau’s response is attached.

‘However beautiful it may be, the sentence concerning the ‘nothings’ likely to set Paris ablaze very hastily invokes ‘freedom’, the least one might say is that even there, I mean in your text, it had been set apart from the feast. Dear René, I’d be grateful if you could take into account how much I, and you may be sure all of our surrealist friends, have always placed on your thought and it is  in this light that I ask you to consider what I am compelled to say to you with the greatest possible understanding and friendship.’ [André Breton website, 2003]

This draft is accompanied by a second version of the letter and René Alleau's reply. [André Breton website, 2020]

*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.

Creation date16/09/1957
Bibliographical material

Ms, black ink - two pages in-4° signed.

Draft of a letter not sent.

LanguagesFrench
Place of origin
Size21,00 x 27,00 cm
Number of pages2
Reference1288000
Breton Auction, 2003Lot 2447
Keywords, ,
CategoriesCorrespondence, Letters from André Breton
Set[Correspondance] Correspondance avec René Alleau, [Archives] Le surréalisme, même
Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600101001238
Place of origin

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[It costs me a lot...] (I)

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André Breton

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First draft of a letter from André Breton to René Alleau concerning Le Surréalisme, même, 16 September 1957.

Two images, a descriptive note, two associated works.

[Correspondance] Correspondance avec René Alleau, [Archives] Le surréalisme, même

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[Vincent Bounoure’s text]

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René Alleau

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Letter from René Alleau to André Breton, dated Versailles, 19 September 1957.

Two images, a descriptive note, two associated works.

[Correspondance] Correspondance avec René Alleau, [Archives] Le surréalisme, même