LEIRIS Michel. - Lot 218

LEIRIS Michel. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Jacques BARON. [Paris] July [1925], 4 1/2 pages in-8 in ink. Michel Leiris tells Surrealist poet Jacques BARON about his eventful evening at the Saint Pol Roux banquet, and about Surrealist activities in Paris. ... I'm writing to you with my face and legs all sore from the blows I received yesterday at the Saint-Pol-Roux farewell banquet. It seems I deserved to die for having let out a few heartfelt cries, and the crowd wanted to tear me apart... ... Good news from Tzara: he's back from Sweden, quite sumptuously dressed, and plans to get married very soon. Masson is in Antibes, where I'm going to join him... Éluard, who is ill, has left and was unable to attend the famous banquet, which Comoedia says is unprecedented in literary annals for its violence... Aragon told me he had received a very sad letter from you... I've just finished my novel and, as I told you, I'm totally against the spirit, at least the spirit as Artaud understands it, and in favor of love...