Michel LEIRIS (1901-1990). Autograph manuscript of a Prière d'insérer; 1 page in-4. Very beautiful text on the dream. "The dream is not an escape. Our thoughts of the night - even the most absurd - come from the same crucible as our thoughts of the day. Desires, fears, or simple turn of mind that mark with their claw each phase of our existence, in vain we would count to escape them in the illusions of sleep. The dream is not a revelation. That a dream brings to the sleeper some clarity on himself, it is not the man with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the man with open eyes, lucid enough to link the reflections. [...] The dream - a mirage that glitters on a background of darkness - is essentially poetry"...