René CHAR.

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René CHAR.
Book of accounts. Paris, May-June 1931]. Schoolboy's notebook of (8) pages, ruled paper, cover decorated with mauve paper: lavaliere percale à la Bradel, black morocco title page (G. Gauché). Curious notebook of the accounts of the Centrale surréaliste by its treasurer, the poet René Char, for the months of May and June 1931: from the library of Paul Eluard. Using a schoolboy notebook on whose cover René Char has written his name and address, the poet lists receipts and expenses - notably the subscriptions (not always paid) of Eluard, Aragon, Tanguy, Buñuel, Dalí, Thirion, Unik, Malkine, Ernst, Tzara, Sadoul, Breton, etc, Expenditure is shown only for the month of May and consists mainly of purchases of envelopes and stamps. We also note, with two penholders, an outflow of 280 Francs for the manifesto Au feu! (The tract, written by Louis Aragon and Paul Thirion, was published in May 1931 following the wave of church and convent burnings in Spain, which was to delight the Surrealists, who encouraged the Spaniards to "destroy religion by all means" and to "erase even the vestiges of these monuments of darkness"). René Char was a member of the Surrealist group for only five years, from 1929 to 1934. A copy bound by G. Gauché for the library of Paul Eluard, with his bookplate designed by Max Ernst bearing the motto: "Après moi le sommeil." The copy is reproduced in the Album Char de la Pléiade (1968, p. 144, with 2 reproductions).
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