CAILLOIS Roger. - Lot 97

CAILLOIS Roger. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to André BRETON. December 27, 1934, 3 1/2 pages, large in-4 in ink. Important letter, very detailed about their differences: ... After our conversation, I have to think that there has never been with you, and probably never will be, a balance between the two domains... an attitude on which you have several times explained yourself clearly and without any appreciable variation, an attitude on which it was only possible to be misled, as I was, by mistaking, according to well-known human weakness, the expression of one's desires for reality. So you're definitely on the side of the intuition of poetry, of art, and of their privileges. Needless to say, I prefer this to ambiguity. But you know that I've adopted the opposite bias, which is more or less the only one of my kind"... "There can be no question of collaboration, only of support - which is to say that for my part I will never hasten to condemn your efforts, on the contrary, I will be at your side if need be"...