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André Breton (1896–1966).
Autograph manuscript signed ‘André Breton’ at the top, [La forêt dans la hache, c. 1929]; 1 page, folio size, with a note in black ink on the reverse of the letterhead and vignette of the journal *La Révolution Surréaliste*.
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Autograph manuscript signed ‘André Breton’ at the top, [La forêt dans la hache, c. 1929]; 1 page, folio size, with a note in black ink on the reverse of the letterhead and vignette of the journal *La Révolution Surréaliste*.
A beautiful, poetic piece of automatic writing. Originally untitled, it was published in 1932 under the title *La forêt dans la hache* in *Le Revolver à cheveux blancs*. ‘We have just died, yet I am alive, and yet I no longer have a soul; I have nothing but a transparent body, inside which transparent doves are stabbed by a transparent dagger held by a transparent hand. [...] Shadow, my darling. You see. There is no more sun. There is only one tropic in two. There is only one man in a thousand. There is only one woman amidst the absence of thought that characterises this accursed age in pure black. This woman holds a bouquet of immortelles shaped like my blood.”