BRETON André. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH AUTOGRAPH POEM to - Lot 22

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, questions 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", to be published in Mont de Piété in 1919 by Sans pareil. Without confirming anything, the addressee could be Jacques Vaché, whom Breton met in February 1916 in Nantes. Breton's three closest friends at this time were Théodore Fraenkel (quoted in the letter), Louis Aragon (whom he had not yet met) and Jacques Vaché.