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Tristan TZARA.
Le Surréalisme et l'Après-Guerre.
Corrected proofs bound in a narrow in-4 volume: grey half cloth à la Bradel with corners, blue morocco title-piece mounted on the first cover (period binding).
Extensively corrected proofs of the text of the lecture given by Tristan Tzara on May 17, 1947: it marked the definitive break with the Surrealist group.
On May 17, 1947, Tristan Tzara gave a lecture on Le Surréalisme et l'Après-
Guerre, which Breton and the Surrealists attended, determined to disrupt. (Tzara and Breton had been at loggerheads since 1935.) "The tumult drowns out the speaker's voice, preventing one from hearing how, in his eyes, the ideologically revolutionary tradition had met revolutionary poetry with Dada and Surrealism. He condemns any return to outdated poetic forms, and continues his indictment of Surrealism, "absent from this war, absent from our hearts and from our action during the occupation."" (André Breton Dictionary, p. 986).
The text was published in Paris by Nagel in 1947.
Copy of the publisher Louis Broder with two letters from Tristan
Tzara.
The first, at the head of the proofs, reads:
These first proofs of "Le Surréalisme et l'après-guerre" belong to Louis Broder
Tzara
And, on the flyleaf: to Louis Broder these pages which have caused a lot of noise and terror
From all [drawing of a heart]
Tristan Tzara
Paris, April 26, 1949
Little is known about Louis Broder, bookseller and later publisher of books illustrated by painters in the 1950's and 60's. As a publisher of Crevel, Artaud, Desnos or
Eluard, perhaps he considered publishing a book by Tzara?
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