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QUENEAU Raymond.
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT, "On a canal a falot"..., [ca. 1925-1929]| 3 pages small in-4 (22 x 17 cm).
Manuscript of a delirious, pornographic and anticlerical surrealist text.
The manuscript is in black ink on the front of 3 lined notebook pages.
This text relates the adventure of a profaner priest, the only one of the men who has not been castrated, bathing in his church transformed into a swimming pool and fi nally murdered by the statue of Saint Joseph, just as he is about to commit the sin of the flesh.
"On a canal a falot and at night burns logs which are the sexes of men. All these now eunuchs when you meet them you do not suspect but the shadow of the woman's loins detects them in spite of their dull smile and their discreet hat-trick. Impotent! No matter how much you promise me vanilla ice cream and a discreet hotel, I won't follow your legs, between which nothing swings [...] The church darkens and drops of shit fall from the vault. The chairs evaporate, the altar descends into the crypt, the ceiling levels off, a basin of water appears in the middle of the nave, scantily clad women enter, sliding in like a superimposition in the cinema. The priest jumps into the pool [...]
He strips naked and prepares to perform the act of flesh, but a gunshot rings out. It is Saint Joseph who has fired: his statue had been forgotten.
He avenges the profaned religion and the priest collapses in a spasm, the Christian women howl with pain, St Joseph is thrown down from his pedestal, reduced to rubble under the feet of the worshippers of the foutre"...
This text seems to be unpublished| it was not collected among the "Surrealist Texts" in Volume I of Queneau's Complete Works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard, 1989. It comes from the archives of André BRETON.
Raymond Queneau began to frequent the Bureau des recherches surréalistes in November 1924, and published his first text, a dream story, in No. 3 of La Révolution surréaliste in April 1925. He broke with Breton in 1929 and collaborated on the violent tract Un cadavre with the text "Dédé".
PROVENANCE André Breton| sale André Breton, 42, rue Fontaine (11-12 April 2003, no. 2094).
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT, "On a canal a falot"..., [ca. 1925-1929]| 3 pages small in-4 (22 x 17 cm).
Manuscript of a delirious, pornographic and anticlerical surrealist text.
The manuscript is in black ink on the front of 3 lined notebook pages.
This text relates the adventure of a profaner priest, the only one of the men who has not been castrated, bathing in his church transformed into a swimming pool and fi nally murdered by the statue of Saint Joseph, just as he is about to commit the sin of the flesh.
"On a canal a falot and at night burns logs which are the sexes of men. All these now eunuchs when you meet them you do not suspect but the shadow of the woman's loins detects them in spite of their dull smile and their discreet hat-trick. Impotent! No matter how much you promise me vanilla ice cream and a discreet hotel, I won't follow your legs, between which nothing swings [...] The church darkens and drops of shit fall from the vault. The chairs evaporate, the altar descends into the crypt, the ceiling levels off, a basin of water appears in the middle of the nave, scantily clad women enter, sliding in like a superimposition in the cinema. The priest jumps into the pool [...]
He strips naked and prepares to perform the act of flesh, but a gunshot rings out. It is Saint Joseph who has fired: his statue had been forgotten.
He avenges the profaned religion and the priest collapses in a spasm, the Christian women howl with pain, St Joseph is thrown down from his pedestal, reduced to rubble under the feet of the worshippers of the foutre"...
This text seems to be unpublished| it was not collected among the "Surrealist Texts" in Volume I of Queneau's Complete Works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard, 1989. It comes from the archives of André BRETON.
Raymond Queneau began to frequent the Bureau des recherches surréalistes in November 1924, and published his first text, a dream story, in No. 3 of La Révolution surréaliste in April 1925. He broke with Breton in 1929 and collaborated on the violent tract Un cadavre with the text "Dédé".
PROVENANCE André Breton| sale André Breton, 42, rue Fontaine (11-12 April 2003, no. 2094).