André BRETON. Signed autograph manuscript, Interview - Pierr - Lot 208

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André BRETON. Signed autograph manuscript, Interview - Pierr - Lot 208
André BRETON. Signed autograph manuscript, Interview - Pierre de Boisdeffre, Paris 15 May 1957; 2 pages in4. Interview on surrealist poetry for the magazine Nouvelles littéraires, with many erasures and corrections. "Changing life", yes, who says better? I don't see that poetry has been offered a higher goal since Rimbaud", even if one can judge this pretension excessive. Which poets are important to him? "As for yesterday's poets [...] in the desire to put an end to the absurd and obsolete distinction of poetic work in prose and verse, I will quote Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Novalis, Hölderlin, Hugo, Nerval, Fourier, Baudelaire, Lautréamont, Rimbaudaud, Nietzsche, Mallarmé, Charles Cros, Huysmans, Jarry, Roussel, Apollinaire. I would add Artaud, if he was not, for me, still of today ". In his contemporaries: Saint-John Perse, Reverdy, Jouve, Péret, Michaux, Char, Georges Bataille, Ponge, Gracq, Césaire, Schehadé, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Malcolm de Chazal ? Breton goes back to the primary objectives of Surrealism: "to put language on holiday by freeing it from the constraints exerted on it by rationalism", which had the effect of "discovering emotional-emotional zones left uncultivated", which led to the conviction that the mind had lost its powers. The movement did not particularly aspire to the "poetic heritage" that became his, especially since Breton refused to consider the movement dead: "It seems premature to me to look for heirs", while the second issue of the magazine he directs, Surrealism, is about to appear, with many lively contributors.... Finally, on committed poetry: "One could hope that Baudelaire was "quite taken with "military metaphors": this word of commitment repulses me, no less than it would have repulsed him". With rare exceptions, he sticks to Rimbaud's opinion: ""Poetry will no longer give rhythm to the action; it will be forward". ...] The very real disappointments of these last thirty years have not
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