[BRETON (André).
Un Cadavre.
[Paris : imp. Sp. du Cadavre, 15 January 1930]. - Brochure of 2 folios.
Virulent and famous pamphlet directed against André Breton composed by the writers "excluded" from the surrealist movement and attacked with vehemence in the Second Manifesto of Surrealism (December 1929). It includes texts by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Roger Vitrac, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Robert Desnos, Georges Bataille, Jacques Baron, etc. and friends of his first wife from whom he had just divorced, namely Raymond Queneau, Max Morise and Jacques Prévert.

On the first page is a photographic portrait of Breton with his eyes closed, wearing a crown of thorns. According to Georges Bataille, almost half of the copies would have been destroyed.

A very well preserved copy, without horizontal folds.
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Lot no. 87

[BRETON (André). Un Cadavre. [Paris : imp. Sp. du Cadavre, 15 January 1930]. - Brochure of 2 folios. Virulent and famous pamphlet directed against André Breton composed by the writers "excluded" from the surrealist movement and attacked with vehemence in the Second Manifesto of Surrealism (December 1929). It includes texts by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Roger Vitrac, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Robert Desnos, Georges Bataille, Jacques Baron, etc. and friends of his first wife from whom he had just divorced, namely Raymond Queneau, Max Morise and Jacques Prévert. On the first page is a photographic portrait of Breton with his eyes closed, wearing a crown of thorns. According to Georges Bataille, almost half of the copies would have been destroyed. A very well preserved copy, without horizontal folds.

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[BRETON (André). Un Cadavre. [Paris : imp. Sp. du Cadavre, 15 January 1930]. - Brochure of 2 folios. Virulent and famous pamphlet directed against André Breton composed by the writers "excluded" from the surrealist movement and attacked with vehemence in the Second Manifesto of Surrealism (December 1929). It includes texts by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Roger Vitrac, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Robert Desnos, Georges Bataille, Jacques Baron, etc. and friends of his first wife from whom he had just divorced, namely Raymond Queneau, Max Morise and Jacques Prévert. On the first page is a photographic portrait of Breton with his eyes closed, wearing a crown of thorns. According to Georges Bataille, almost half of the copies would have been destroyed. A very well preserved copy, without horizontal folds.
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