BRETON André. - Lot 78

BRETON André. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH AUTOGRAPH POEM to a friend. September 10, 1916. 3 pages in-8 in ink. Autograph letter to a friend in which André Breton, a medical student, wonders about his situation. ... T. Fraenkel writes that I am losing myself. By this he means, on my confession, that beauty no longer moves me and has the friendship to be more affected by it than I am... I'm just kidding, I'm able to keep up with my remorse" ... ... Nantes took me quite high in creative value. For a while, I was proud to assume that Rimbaud had spoken to me more than to others. I was crazy about it. Those who knew me would tell you that I would have loved him... I'm an intern for Doctor Leroy, chief physician at the Ville-Evrard insane asylum. Suddenly, I've been turned away from my department, to the point of renunciation? I watch myself incredulously examining patients discussing their delirium... the most serious thing is that I'm not acting out of spite... I once threatened Fraenkel that one day he'd be an asylums doctor, a former intern. This incurable ambition came to me. Psychiatry is wonderful. Apollinaire sent me a charmingly eccentric watercolor... "To exonerate myself from the false accusation of indulging in my future research because of premature impotence, I leave you to judge my latest poem Coqs de Bruyère. Breton provides a complete autograph copy of the poem "Coqs de Bruyère", which will be published in Mont de Piété in 1919 by Sans pareil.