DESNOS, Robert.

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DESNOS, Robert.
Freedom or Love! Paris, Éditions du Sagittaire, Simon Kra , [1927]. In-16 [153 x 115] with a frontispiece, 99 pp, (1) blank p., (2) blank ff. pp. 121-156, (2) blank ff. pp. 169-178, p. 183, (4) ff. the last one blank: paperback, filled cover. First edition. It is decorated in the frontispiece with a facsimile reproduction of an autograph fragment of the manuscript. One of 965 copies on vellum of Rives, this one not numbered. The poetic story mixing eroticism and subversion was condemned and censored. Two chapters, judged too free, were thus suppressed by the editor: the "Club of the drinkers of sperm" and the "New eucharist consecrating the divinity of the Baby Cadum." They are missing here. Surprising autograph letter signed on the first blank page: a André Gide // who will think // what he wants // Robert Desnos In the provocative manner of Robert Desnos, the tone of the letter seems to indicate that the libertarian only moderately appreciated André Gide, in spite of a complicity based on a mutual esteem. In a letter addressed to Henri Béraud in 1924, Robert Desnos notes: "In response to your reply 'Enquête sur [Anatole] France au sujet de son 80e anniversaire' I am pleased to inform you: Mr. André Gide born in 1869 (nice number) is 55 years old, that is to say 25 years younger than Mr. Thibault dit France. So that, if death observes some justice, Mr. Gide will annoy you for another 25 years (which makes him sympathetic to me) after France will have stopped annoying us." A partly uncut copy, very well preserved.
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