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Pablo Picasso poem by Georges Hugnet with decorations by Picasso. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2)

"Les aigles à taille d'éclair portent les branches du charbon..."

Scope and Contents Préface by André Breton. Translated by Bravig Imbs. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2) "The almost complete disruption on the critical spirit-which mentally characterizes wartime-has had a very profound effect on the development of the arts and the interplay of ideas on the development of the arts and the interplay of ideas involved inn that development...""La crise à peu près totale de l'esprit critique qui caractèrise au mental le temps de...

Scope and Contents Incendiary Innocence. Manifesto by Toni del Renzio. Harangue by one-time leader of the English Surrealist Group. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2) "These words are addressed at a time when self-interests link abroad seeking to exploit the current situation in which ignorance and bigotry, confusion and misrepresentation, weakness and deception, all combine to obscure with the fog of several signs the obstacle that impedes the actual process of...

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Volontés - Revue Mensuelle. Questionnaire distributed by this review which was edited by Jules Monnerot. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2)

"Le questionnaire que vous trouverez plus loin s'adresse avant tout à ceux qui sont trop jeunes pour etre impliqués sans retour dans le désordre établi..."

Scope and Contents Idolatry [and] Confusion by Jacques Brunius and E.L.T. Mesens. An essay attacking English critical attitudes to the "patriotic" poetry of Aragon and Eluard. Published by the authors after being rejected by the review "Tribune." Among those under fire are Arthur Koestler, Kathleen Raine and Cyril Connolly. The essay is followed by a savage cartoon by Brunius and a satirical poem (in French) by Mesens, both attacking Aragon. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 40) "Was it not a...

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La Révolution La Nuit edited by Yves Bonnefoy. Mostly prose and petry by Bonnefoy but other contributors include Claude Tarnaud. 2 accompanying sheets are identical in text. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 40)

"N'en déplaise à MM, les profiteurs de guerre, qui sont nombreux, et de toutes sortes, il faut se rendre à l'évidence..."

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Dieu Est-il Francais? By La Révolution La Nuit. Consists largely of quotations from De Sade including some quotes from Breton. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 40)

"Certes. Mais Dieu n'est pas seulement français. Le royaume de Dieu n'a pas de frontières..."