SOUPAULT PHILIPPE: (1897-1990)

SOUPAULT PHILIPPE: (1897-1990) French Writer, Poet and political Activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founder of the Surrealist movement together with Breton. An excellent content and lengthy A.L.S., Philippe, four pages, on separate sheets, 4to, n.p., 29th July 1956, to Henry-Jacques Dupuy, in French. Soupault mentions that he has taken his correspondent´s letter with him to Italy in order to answer more calmly to the very important and extremely interesting questions. Soupault explains and details the work and way walked together with Breton, including their long conversations about the essence of poetry, stating in part `..about images, their formation, their value, their power. We talked about all this walking in the streets, at the coffee bar..´, further referring that they realized that the poetic images can be created but `..what was surprising me was that the images, spontaneous, those dictated in some way by our unconscious, were always stronger, more unexpected, more striking than those we were building-up..´ Soupault explains that they decided to write as spontaneously as they could, and states `..We were both of us astonished by the richness of the unusual images, by the humour, the bizarre and valuable texts.. I even remember how we burst on laughing sometimes..It was the creation of a world we never had expected. A[ndré] B[reton] reached that level more easily than me…The world I was describing was absolutely unknown, new. I was discovering a world I was creating while I was writing...´. The French poet concludes expressing his certitude that both of them had make a great discovery in the poetry field `..we had the feeling that we had found a liberation..´ A letter of excellent content. VG £200-300