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EXEMPLAIRE DE JEAN SUQUET bearing this superb AUTOGRAPHIC SENDER SIGNED :

"To Jean Suquet
"It seemed to me that the fragrant shrubs had befriended the fruit trees, so strongly had they intertwined". (Vathek) ... as only chance perfumes the apples of love indistinguishably mixed with the prickly pears of revolt.
A very friendly tribute from André Breton".

The copy is autographed: "found in Toulouse in January-February 1947 Jean Suquet".It was probably found by Jean Suquet's wife, Solange, as it bears this ex-dono: "to my little shivering Solange".
It also includes numerous annotations by Jean Suquet in the margins of more than thirty pages and on the endpapers: underlining, dating of certain passages, keys to certain characters and, above all, poetic notes.

- on the title page:

"One night, he called it poetry.
The long, elusive eye under the bristling spindle of your eyebrows, on the edge of a temple that fogs up and evaporates into your trailing hair, your elusive face in the rough air makes you so beautiful that you look like you're alive.
"Innocence in the sense of absolute guiltlessness". Breton - The only chance where the demand for purity can be met. Jean Suquet"

- choice of annotations in the margins of the text :

"I am atrociously defending myself from the memory of her whom I have not been able to adore."
"I looked for it in a hand-sorrow - the dishevelled of my sleep ... double image that separates the evening."
"The night invites me to be only the night - Beautiful dancer with shoes that come back to wear on my fear without reducing it to anything - my oblique fear that glides through the night - my fear insults Cinderella tonight - I flee, I am unworthy of being pure 4 - 1947."
"So beautiful in the morning - my eyes enlarged by dreams - are full of them"
"So beautiful is the adventure of your eyes closed to the sound corridors of sleep".

The word END at the end of the text is crossed out and replaced by : "love your madness

Jean Suquet (1928-2007) studied medicine at the Sorbonne and became a member of the Surrealist group in 1948, co-signing the Letter from the Surrealists to Garry Davis and organised with André Breton, Cahors Mundi, World Citizen. Breton had a decisive influence on Suquet, introducing him to Mary Reynolds and Jacques Villon, and above all suggesting that he write about Marcel Duchamp, as their ideas were very similar. On 15 July 1949, Suquet wrote to Duchamp: "If I am to write about you and your work, it will not be as a critic but as a poet". Duchamp replied from New York on 9 August: "I totally agree with your project. And as you say, as a poet is the only way to say something." After sending him his 40-page article, Duchamp replied on 25 December 1949: "After all, I owe you a debt of gratitude for exposing me... You undoubtedly know that you are the only person in the world to have reconstructed the gestation of the glass in all its detail, with even the many intentions never executed."

Elegant dark grey wooden paper binding signed Goy et Vilaine.

NICE PROVENANCE.