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QUENEAU Raymond.
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Raymond Queneau", [Rêves, 1928]| 9 pages in-4 (27 x 21 cm).
Text published in La Révolution Surréaliste.
This is Queneau's third and last published surrealist text.
Manuscript in black ink on the front of lined paper sheets, having been used for printing in No. 11 of La Révolution Surréaliste, March 15, 1928| the author's autograph signature at the end has been crossed out by the typographer. The title Rêves is printed and pasted at the head of the manuscript.
This text consists of various dreamlike sequences, interspersed with ironic comments by the author on his own writing activity, which announce the author of the Exercises in Style.
"If I had to live on a desert island," says the panther to the cassowary, "I would like to have at least one beautiful tree to sharpen my claws and the foreign Didot-Bottin - But you can't read - Imbecile," and she devours the cassowary. "I don't like it when animals are made to talk," said a diamond filing his nails. 'We don't know where we stand on instinct. The best philosophers have been unable to support any reasonable theory on the subject." A bus goes by that crushes the diamond. [...] And the days come back and they don't come back and the circles close without the circumferences ever being perfect and everything wraps itself around our miserable destinies. [...] I write - after what a bore! And it's no better or worse than sticking your nose to the window to see the illusory specimens of humanity that want to impose themselves on us. I know so much about laziness, I know so much about work, and all that passes along these lines, like that, but where do these... and the unconscious, Sir, your studies in psychology, I know, I know, the unconscious, no, it's despair [...] The terminus of the tramway walks backwards along the rails distended by the effect of a reverse pendiculation. [...] Of course, as we have known for some years, there are surrealists, about twenty of them. There are also people who are interested in surrealism: I've met some of them and I've always been surprised that none of these people had a pineal eye in the middle of their forehead. [...] There is another way of telling this story:
BOOKS upside down makes SERVIL".
PROVENANCE André Breton| sale André Breton, 42, rue Fontaine (11-12 April 2003, n°2143).
Œuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, tome I, edition established by
Claude Debon, 1989 (p. 991-997)
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Raymond Queneau", [Rêves, 1928]| 9 pages in-4 (27 x 21 cm).
Text published in La Révolution Surréaliste.
This is Queneau's third and last published surrealist text.
Manuscript in black ink on the front of lined paper sheets, having been used for printing in No. 11 of La Révolution Surréaliste, March 15, 1928| the author's autograph signature at the end has been crossed out by the typographer. The title Rêves is printed and pasted at the head of the manuscript.
This text consists of various dreamlike sequences, interspersed with ironic comments by the author on his own writing activity, which announce the author of the Exercises in Style.
"If I had to live on a desert island," says the panther to the cassowary, "I would like to have at least one beautiful tree to sharpen my claws and the foreign Didot-Bottin - But you can't read - Imbecile," and she devours the cassowary. "I don't like it when animals are made to talk," said a diamond filing his nails. 'We don't know where we stand on instinct. The best philosophers have been unable to support any reasonable theory on the subject." A bus goes by that crushes the diamond. [...] And the days come back and they don't come back and the circles close without the circumferences ever being perfect and everything wraps itself around our miserable destinies. [...] I write - after what a bore! And it's no better or worse than sticking your nose to the window to see the illusory specimens of humanity that want to impose themselves on us. I know so much about laziness, I know so much about work, and all that passes along these lines, like that, but where do these... and the unconscious, Sir, your studies in psychology, I know, I know, the unconscious, no, it's despair [...] The terminus of the tramway walks backwards along the rails distended by the effect of a reverse pendiculation. [...] Of course, as we have known for some years, there are surrealists, about twenty of them. There are also people who are interested in surrealism: I've met some of them and I've always been surprised that none of these people had a pineal eye in the middle of their forehead. [...] There is another way of telling this story:
BOOKS upside down makes SERVIL".
PROVENANCE André Breton| sale André Breton, 42, rue Fontaine (11-12 April 2003, n°2143).
Œuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, tome I, edition established by
Claude Debon, 1989 (p. 991-997)