Dans les fers. La porte bat.
2 autograph poems, one signed.
[Dans les fers] autograph poem in first draft with corrections by André
Breton, fragment of autograph poem, signed and dated Salon, August 16, 1940; 1/2 page in-4.
[La Porte bat], autograph poem, n.d. [1943]; 1 page in-4 in pencil on school paper. First draft manuscript, overloaded with erasures and corrections, and containing variants from the final text.
Complete in itself, it constitutes the second half of the poem D'ici l'on voit ce qui va venir...first published in the Pléiade. This text was composed when Breton, demobilized in August 1940, had joined
Pierre Mabille in Salon-de-Provence: "In the irons
Where laughs a head hollowed out by the blade
There is a table set at the top of the trees
Tables with the moon's coverings with the breaking glass of a nightingale
I see the man whose torso gleams with the brilliance of the first women who haunted the banks of the Ganges..."
The second poem was published in the March 1943 issue of VVV.
OEuvres complètes, Pléiade, t.II, p. 1287-1288 and p. 24.
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