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By no means complete and, on more than one occasion,
eminently perfectible, this bibliography aspires nevertheless to offer
the first gathering of the names of writers and the titles of literary
works that are related, either directly or indirectly, to Marcel Duchamp
or to the work of Marcel Duchamp. For matters of clarification,
entries have been arranged chronologically in each of the four sections.
If a book is reprinted or initially published in a paperback edition,
this is indicated. If a book is translated, in full or in part, in English
or in French, this is also indicated. The four sections
are the following:
I. Those who have published
a. at least one book, chapter, or article on the work of Marcel Duchamp,
or an interview with him, as well as
b. a literary work (novel, collection of short stories, poetry, play).
II. Those who have published a literary work (novel, short story, play,
etc.) which was "inspired" or "partially inspired" by the work of Marcel
Duchamp or Duchamp himself.
III. Those who have published a literary work (novel, short story, poem,
etc.) "in honor of" or "in partial honor of" Marcel Duchamp or his work.
IV. Literary works "illustrated" by Marcel Duchamp (alone or in collaboration)
or by Marcel Duchamp and another artist. Recognition
of the first important work by Duchamp, of several works by Duchamp, and
of what we've agreed to collectively call "the art of Marcel Duchamp"
truly began in 1913 - with public recognition from the Americans (at the
Armory Show, 1913) and critical recognition from the French (Apollinaire,
1913). Although more developed on the English-speaking side, the connections
between art and literature, if one were to consider them, seem clearly
more constant, even more consistent, on the French-speaking side. No relation
of cause and effect here, but a simple observation: quite a lot of those
who have written or will write about Marcel Duchamp have written or will
also write (most often in French) literary texts. André
Gervais
January 2000
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1. Those who have published
a. at least one book, chapter, or article on the work of Marcel Duchamp,
or an interview with him, as well as
b. a literary work (novel, collection of short stories, poetry, play).
Note : In each case, the publication date of (a) is provided first,
in brackets, before the author's name. Following the author's name is
a list of his/her literary texts. Where an author has published a number
of literary texts, the choice has been limited to four.
[1913, Chapter]
Guillaume Apollinaire [pseud.], Wilhem Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky
(1880-1918)
L'enchanteur pourrissant
[story in prose interspersed with poems]. With ten woodcuts by André Derain.
Paris: Henry Kahnweiler éditeur, 1909.
Alcools [poems 1898-1913]. With a portrait by
Pablo Picasso. Paris : Mercure de France, 1913; Paris: Gallimard, coll.
"Poésie/Gallimard"; Alcools. Translated by Anne Hyde Greet, with
a foreword by Warren Ramsey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965;
Alcools. Translated by Donald Revell. Hanover: University Press of
New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1995.
Le poète assassiné [stories]. With a portrait
by André Rouveyre. Paris: Bibliothèque des curieux, 1916; Paris: Gallimard,
coll. "Poésie / Gallimard"; The Poet Assassinated. Translated with
a bibliographical notice and notes by Matthew Josephson. New York: The Broom
Pub. Co., 1923; The Poet Assassinated. Translated by Ron Padgett,
illustrated by Jim Dine. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Calligrammes. [Poems of peace and war 1913-1916].
With a portrait by Pablo Picasso. Paris : Mercure de France, 1918; Paris:
Gallimard, coll. "Poésie / Gallimard "; Calligrammes. Translated
by Anne Hyde Greet, with an introduction by S. I. Lockerbie and commentary
by Anne Hyde Greet and S. I. Lockerbie. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1980.
[1917, Article-Interview]
Mina Loy [pseud.], Mina Lowy (1882-1966)
Lunar
Baedecker [sic]. Paris: Contact Publishing
Company, 1923; Lunar Baedeker & Time-tables. Highlands, NC: Jonathan
Williams, 1958; The Last Lunar Baedeker. Edited and introduced
by Roger L. Conover. Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1982; The Lost
Lunar Baedeker. Definitive edition, edited and introduced by Roger
L. Conover. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.
[1917, Article]
Louise
Varèse, born Louise McCutcheon (1890-1988)
St.-John Perse. Éloges, and other poems. French
text with English translation by Louise Varèse and introduction by Archibald
MacLeish. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1944.
Charles Baudelaire. Paris Spleen. Translated by
Louise Varèse. New York: New Directions, 1947.
Marcel Proust. Pleasures and Regrets. Translated
by Louise Varèse, with a preface by Anatole France. New York: Crown Publishers,
1948.
Varèse: A Looking-Glass Diary, Volume 1,
1883-1928. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1972.
[1922, Article]
André Breton (1896-1966)
Nadja [1928] [story] Completely revised edition,
by the author. Paris: Gallimard, 1963; coll. "Folio"; Nadja. Translated
by Richard Howard. New York: Grove Press, 1960 and London: Evergreen Books,
Ltd., 1960.
Arcane 17 [1944, with
four colored tarot strips by Matta] enté d'Ajours. With three etchings
by Baskine. Paris: Éd. du Sagittaire, 1947; coll. "10 / 18 "; Arcanum
17 : With Apertures : Grafted to the End. Translated by Zack Rogow,
with an introduction by Anna Balakian. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1994.
Clair de terre
,
[poems]. Preface by Alain Jouffroy. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Poésie / Gallimard,"
1966.
Signe ascendant
, [poems]. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Poésie / Gallimard," 1966[1924,
Preface]
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Geography
and Plays. Boston: The Four Seas Company,
1922. The Making of Americans, Being a
History of a Family's Progress [novel]. Paris: Contact Editions, 1925;
Américains d'Amérique, histoire d'une famille américaine. Translated
by the Baronness J. Seillère and Bernard Faÿ. Paris: Stock, Delamain et
Boutelleau, 1933. The Autobiography of Alice
B. Toklas. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1933; Autobiographie
d'Alice Toklas. Translated by Bernard Faÿ. Paris: Gallimard, 1934.
Everybody's Autobiography. New York: Random House,
1937; Autobiographies. Translated by the Baronness d'Aiguy (May
Tagnard). Paris: Éd. Confluences, 1945.
[1924, Book]
Pierre de Massot (1900-1969)
Prolégomènes à une éthique sans métaphysique ou Billy,
bull-dog et philosophe
[essay]. Paris: Éditions de la Montagne, 1930.
Mon
corps, ce doux démon [written 1932] [autobiography]. Letter-preface
by André Gide, with an engraved portrait by Jacques Villon, s.l.n.d. [Alès:
PAB, 1959].
Le
mystère des maux [poems]. With a drawing by Francis Picabia. Paris:
hors commerce [Imprimerie René Martinet et Cie], 1961.
Le
déserteur. Oeuvre poétique 1923-1969, texts collected and presented
by Gérard Pfister, Paris, Arfuyen, 1992.
[1936, Article]
Michel Leiris (1901-1990)
L'âge
d'homme [written 1930-1935, published 1939].
Preceded by: De la littérature considérée comme une tauromachie
[1946] [first autobiography]. Paris: Gallimard, 1946; Paris: Gallimard,
coll. "Folio"; Manhood : A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order
of Virility. Preceded by: The Autobiographer as Torero. Translated
by Richard Howard. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1963. La
règle du jeu. Tome I: Biffures, Tome II: Fourbis, Tome
III: Fibrilles [and] Tome IV: Frêle bruit [second autobiography].
Paris: Gallimard, respectively 1948, 1955, 1966 and 1976: the four volumes,
coll. "L'imaginaire"; Rules of the Game: Scratches [Biffures].
Translated by Lydia Davis. New York: Paragon House, 1991 [Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University, 1997]; Scraps [Fourbis]. Translated by
Lydia Davis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 1997.
Mots sans mémoire,
[poetry]. Paris, Gallimard, 1969.
Journal 1922-1989. Critical edition presented and
annotated by Jean Jamin. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.
[1937, Article]
Roger Caillois (1913-1978)
Art poétique. Paris:
Gallimard, 1958.
Esthétique généralisée. Paris: Gallimard, 1962.
Pierres. Paris: Gallimard, 1966.
Obliques [1967]. Precedes Images, images...
[1966]. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Le monde ouvert," 1974.
[1938, Article-Interview; 1959, Book]
Robert Lebel (1901-1986)
Masque à lame. Illustrated by Isabelle Waldberg.
New York: Éd. Hémisphères, 1943.
L'oiseau caramel. Illustrated by Max Ernst. Paris:
le Soleil noir, 1969.
Traité des passions par personne interposée. Paris:
Losfeld, 1972.
La Saint-Charlemagne. Illustrated by Max
Ernst. Paris: le Soleil noir, 1976.
[1945, Article]
Man Ray [pseud.], Emmanuel Radnitsky (1890-1976).
Self Portrait [begun
1951, published 1963] [autobiography]. Foreword by Merry A. Foresta. Afterword
by Juliet Man Ray. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., and the New York Graphic
Society, 1988; Autoportrait. Translated into French by Anne Guérin.
Paris: Laffont, 1964; Arles: Actes Sud, coll. "Babel."
Ce que je suis et autres textes. Presented
by Vincent Lavoie. Paris: Hoëbeke, coll. "Arts & esthétique," 1998.
[1945, Article]
Nicolas Calas [pseud.], [also known as Nikolas Kalas], Nikos Kalamares
(1907- )
Odos Niketa Randou
[poems]. Athènes: Ikaros, 1977.
[1949, Article]
Gaston Puel (1924- )
Paysage nuptial. Frontispiece
by Hans Bellmer. Paris: GLM, 1947.
La jamais rencontrée. Frontispiece by Max Ernst.
Paris: Seghers, 1950.
Ce chant entre deux astres. Collage by Jean Arp
in double frontispiece. Lyon: Henneuse éd., 1956.
Le cinquième château. With two original
woodcuts by Raoul Ubac. Veilhes: la Fenêtre ardente, 1965.
[1950, Article; 1974, Book]
Jean Suquet (1928- )
Jamais rien ni personne
[novel]. Enhanced with an engraving faded by time. Paris: le Parler de la
lune aphasique, 1958.
Une chimie greffée de chimères. Paris: le Parler
de la lune aphasique, 1972.
Oubli sablier intarissable,
Special issue of the journal Liard (Bordeaux,
1996).
[1952, Article; 1954, Chapter]
Michel Carrouges, [pseud.] Louis Couturier (1910-1988)
Les portes dauphines [novel].
Paris: Gallimard, 1954.
Les grands-pères prodiges [novel]. Paris:
Plon, 1957.
[1953, Article]
Henri Pierre Roché (1879-1959)
Jean Roc [pseud.]. Don Juan et... [story]. Paris:
Éd. de la Sirène, 1921; Marseille: André Dimanche Éditeur, 1993.
Jules et Jim [novel]. Paris: Gallimard, 1953;
coll. "Folio"; Jules and Jim, translated by Patrick Evans. London
and Boston: M. Boyars, 1963.
Deux Anglaises et le continent [novel]. Paris:
Gallimard, 1956.
Carnets. Les années Jules et Jim. Part one,
1920-1921. Foreword by François Truffaut. Marseille: André Dimanche Éditeur,
1990.
[1954, Article-Interview]
Alain Jouffroy (1928- )
Un rêve plus long que la nuit
[novel]. Paris: Gallimard, 1964; coll. "Folio."
Trajectoire [recitative]. Paris: Gallimard, 1968.
Liberté des libertés. Illustrated by Joan Miró
and Valerio Adami. Paris: le Soleil noir, 1971.
L'ouverture de l'être 1947-1962 [poems].
Preface by Sarane Alexandrian. Paris: Éd. de la Différence, coll. "Littérature,"
1983.
[1957, Article-Interview]
Jean Schuster (1929-1995)
Les moutons. Paris:
Éd. le Récipiendaire, 1978.
Les fruits de la passion. Paris: l'Instant, coll.
"Griffures," 1988.
T'as vu ça d'ta f'nêtre. Followed by: Lettre
à André Liberati contre les acolytes de Dieu et les Judas de l'athéisme.
Levallois-Perret: Manya, 1990.
Le ramasse-miettes. Followed by: Lettre
différée à Philippe Soupault. Saucats: Opales, 1991.
[1959, Article]
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali.
Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. New York: Dial Press, 1942; La vie
secrète de Salvador Dali. Adapted by Michel Déon. Paris: Éd. de la Table
ronde, coll. "Les vies perpendiculaires," 1952; Paris: Gallimard, coll.
"Idées."
Journal d'un génie. [kept from 1952-1963].
Introduction and notes by Michel Déon. Paris: Éd. de la Table ronde, 1964;
Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Idées"; Diary of a Genius. Foreword and
notes by Michel Déon. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Doubleday,
1965.
[1959, Interview; 1996, Book]
Calvin Tomkins (1925- )
Intermission [novel].
New York: Viking Press, 1951.
Living Well Is the Best Revenge. New York:
Viking Press, 1971.
[1963, Article]
John Cage (1912-1992)
Silence [lectures and
writings]; A Year from Monday [new lectures and writings]; M
[writings, '67-'72]; Empty Words [writings, '73-'78]; X [writings,
'79-'82]; Middletown (CT): Wesleyan University Press, respectively 1961,
1967, 1973, 1979 and 1983; Silence. Translated into the French by
Monique Fong. Paris: Denoël, 1970.
Pour les oiseaux. Dialogues with Daniel
Charles. Paris: Belfond, 1976; For the Birds, Boston: M. Boyards,
1981.
[1964, Chapter; 1967, Book]
Arturo Schwarz (1924- )
Choix de poèmes [poems].
In French. Paris: Seghers, 1956.
Il reale assoluto [poems]. In Italian. With eleven
lithographs by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1964.
Per Vera [poems]. In Italian. With a portrait
of Vera by Franco Francese. Milan: Penna di Pollo Editore, 1984.
A Coat Made of Wind [poems]. In English.
With an engraving by Ofer Lellouche. Tel-Aviv: The Genia Shreiber University
Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, 1994.
[1968, Article]
Denis de Rougemont (1906-1985)
L'amour et l'occident
[1939] [essay]. Revised edition. Paris: Plon, 1956; Paris: UGÉ, coll. "10
/ 18"; Love in the Western World. Revised and augmented edition.
Translated by Montgomery Belgion. New York: Pantheon, 1956. [The other title
of this translation is Passion and Society, London: Faber and Faber,
1956].
La part du diable [end of 1942]. New version.
Neuchâtel: la Baconnière, 1945; The Devil's Share [essay]. On the
diabolic in modern society. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. New York:
Meridian Books, 1956.
Lettres sur la bombe atomique. Paris: Gallimard,
1946.
Journal d'une époque 1926-1946. Paris: Gallimard,
1968. [Revised edition of Journal des deux mondes, 1947.]
[1968, Book]
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
Liberté sur parole [1949,
translated into French, 1966], followed by: Condition de nuage, Aigle
ou soleil [1951], À la limite du monde [1942], and Pierre
de soleil [1957, translated into French, 1962] [poems]; Translated from
the Spanish by Jean-Clarence Lambert (reviewd by the author) and Benjamin
Péret. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Poésie / Gallimard," 1971.
Versant est [1962-1968] et autres poèmes
1960-1968. Translated from the Spanish into French by Yesé Amory
et al. Paris: Gallimard, 1970; coll. "Poésie / Gallimard."
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987.
Edited and translated into English by Eliot Weinberger, with additional
translations by Elizabeth Bishop et al. New York: New Directions, 1987.
Le singe grammairien. Translated into the
French by Claude Esteban. Geneva: Skira, coll. "Les sentiers de la création,"
1972; The Monkey Grammarian. Translated into the English by Helen
R. Lane. New York: Seaver Books, 1981.
[1969, Article]
Bernard Teyssèdre (1930- )
Romans-éclairs. Paris: Grasset, 1961.
Foi de fol [comical
story entangled with plagiarism and examples]. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Le
chemin,"1968.
Le roman de l'Origine. Paris: Gallimard,
coll. "L'Infini," 1996.
[1971, Article]
José Pierre (1927-1998 ?)
Qu'est-ce que Thérèse? C'est les marronniers en fleurs
[novel]. Paris: le Soleil noir, 1974; coll. "J'ai lu. Pour lecteurs avertis."
La charité commence par un baiser. Paris: Galilée,
coll. "Ligne fictive," 1980.
Les barreaux du cœur [novel]. Paris: Mercure de
France, coll. "Le Mercure galant," 1986.
La fontaine close. Les livres secrets
d'une secte gnostique inconnue. Paris: l'Instant, coll. "Griffures,"
1988.
[1972, Article]
Marcelin Pleynet (1933- )
Stanze.
Incantation dite au bandeau d'or I-IV. Paris:
Seuil, coll. "Tel quel," 1973. Rime.
Paris: Seuil, coll. "Tel quel," 1981.
Le jour et l'heure [diary]. Paris: Plon, coll.
"Carnets," 1988.
La vie à deux ou trois [novel]. Paris: Gallimard,
1992.
[1973, Article]
David Antin (1932- )
Selected Poems 1963-1973. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon
Press, coll. "Sun & Moon classics," 1991; Poèmes parlés. Translated
into the French by Jacques Darras et al., preface by Jacques Darras. Saint-Pierre-du-Mont:
les Cahiers des brisants, coll. "les Cahiers de Royaumont," 1984.
Meditations. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press,
1971.
After the War [a long novel with few words]. Los
Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Talking at the Boundaries. New York: New
Directions, 1976.
[1974, Article; 1996, Book]
Roger Dadoun (...-)
Les dits
d'Éros. Marseille: Via Valeriano, 1994.
[1974, Article]
Bernard Pingaud (1923- )
La voix de son maître.
Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
La scène primitive. Paris: Gallimard, 1984; coll.
"L'imaginaire."
Adieu Kafk [novel]. Paris: Gallimard, 1989.
Bartoldi le comédien [novel]. Paris: Seuil,
1996.
[1974, Article]
Jean-Clarence Lambert (1930- )
Les armes parlantes.
Pratique de la poésie. Paris: Belfond, 1976.
Idylles. Followed by: Féminaire. Drawings
by Corneille. Paris: Galilée, coll. "Écritures, figures," 1985.
Poésie en jeu 1953-1973. Paris: Galilée, coll.
"Écritures, figures," 1986.
Le jardin le labyrinthe 1953-1989 [poems].
Prologue by Octavio Paz. Paris: Éd. de la Différence, coll. "Littérature,"
1991.
[1974, Article]
Gilbert Lascault (1934- )
Enfances choisies. Paris:
Bourgois, 1976.
Encyclopédie abrégée de l'Empire vert. Paris:
Maurice Nadeau: Papyrus, coll. "Lettres nouvelles," 1983.
Éloges à Geneviève. Paris: Balland, 1985.
Les amours d'Arthur-Toujours-Là et de Monika-Belle-de-Givre.
Soft parts by Pétra Werlé. Strasbourg: Baby Lone, coll. "L'île sonnante,"1986.
[1975, Article]
Michel Butor (1926- )
La modification [novel]. Paris: Minuit, 1957;
coll. "10 / 18"; Second Thoughts. Translated by Jean Stewart. London:
Faber and Faber, 1958.
Mobile [études pour une représentation
des États-Unis]. Paris: Gallimard, 1962; Mobile [study for a representation
of the United States]. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1963.
Matière de rêves, Matière de rêves II. Second sous-sol,
Matière de rêves III. Troisième dessous et Matière de rêves IV. Quadruple
fond. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Le chemin," respectively 1975, 1976,
1977 and 1981.
Envois et Exprès. (Envois 2) [poems]. Paris:
Gallimard, coll. "Le chemin," 1980, 1983.
[1975, Book]
Jean Clair, [pseud.] Gérard Régnier (1940- )
Gérard Régnier, Les chemins détournés [novel].
Paris: Gallimard, 1962.
Le voyageur égoïste [travel notebook]. 1978-1988.
Paris: Plon, coll. "Carnets," 1989.
Onze chansons puériles. Numbered by Pierre
Alechinsky (1927-). Caen: l'Échoppe, 1990.
[1976, Book]
Sarane Alexandrian (1927- )
Le déconcerto [stories].
Paris: Galilée, coll. "Ligne fictive," 1980.
L'aventure en soi [autobiography]. Paris: Mercure
de France, 1990.
Le grand astrosophe [novel]. Paris: Losfeld,
1994.
[1977, Book]
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)
Récits tremblants, with
Jacques Monory (1934- ). Paris: Galilée, 1977.
Le mur du Pacifique [story]. Paris: Galilée, coll.
"Ligne fictive," 1979.
L'histoire de Ruth, with Ruth Francken (1924-
). Talence: le Castor astral, coll. "Le mot et la forme," 1983.
[1977, Article; 1984, Book]
André Gervais (1947- )
Trop plein pollen [poems].
In the journal Les Herbes rouges, no. 23 (Montréal, 1974).
Hom storm grom. Followed by: Pré prisme aire
urgence [poems]. Montréal: Éd. de l'Aurore, coll. "Lecture en vélocipède,"
1975.
Du muscle astérisque [prose]. In the journal La
Nouvelle Barre du jour, series "Auteur/e," no. 180 (Montréal, 1986).
La nuit se lève [poems and prose]. With
a picture by Bruno Santerre. Saint-Lambert: Éd. du Noroît, 1990.
[1984, Article]
Philippe Muray (1945-)
Chant pluriel. Paris:
Gallimard, 1973.
Jubila [novel]. Paris: Seuil, coll. "Fiction et
Cie," 1976.
Postérité [novel]. Paris: Grasset, 1988.
On ferme [novel]. Paris: les Belles lettres,
1997.
[1984, Book]
Jean-Christophe Bailly (1949- )
Défaire le vide. Paris:
Éd. étrangères, et Paris: Bourgois, 1975.
Le
propre du langage. Voyages au pays des noms communs. Paris: Seuil,
coll. "La librairie du XXe siècle," 1997.
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II. Those who have published a literary work
(novel, short story, play, etc.) which was "inspired" or "partially inspired"
by the work of Marcel Duchamp or Duchamp himself;
Note: Names preceded by an asterisk have already
been listed in Section I.
Elmer Ernest Southard (1876-1920)
"Mlle de l'escalier" [novella, dictated into English, November
17, 1916]. In The Open Mind. Elmer Ernest Southard 1876-1920 by
Frederick P. Gay. Chicago: Normandie House, 1938.
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, ("The Baroness"),
born Elsa Hildegard Ploetz (1874-1927)
"Portrait
de Marcel Duchamp" [poem]. In English. The Little Review, vol.
9, no. 2 (New York, Winter 1922).
Henrie Waste [pseud.], Henrietta ("Ettie") Stettheimer
(1874-1955)
Love days [Susanna Moore's]
[written from 1919 (?) to 1922] [novel]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [August]
1923.
"Pensée-Cadeau: vers à un ami" [Summer 1922] [poem].
In French. View, series 5, no. 1 (New York, March 1945)
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Robert Desnos (1900-1945)
Rrose Sélavy [written
October 1922-1923] [aphorisms]. Published in part in Littérature,
new series: no. 7 (Paris, December 1, 1922); published in part (but with
variation) in Corps et biens. Paris: Gallimard, 1930; coll. "Poésie
/ Gallimard."
L'aumonyme [written from November 1922 to
December 1923]. In Corps et biens. Paris: Gallimard, 1930; coll.
"Poésie / Gallimard."
Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
Caravansérail
[written from June 1923 to January 1924] [novel]. Paris: Belfond, 1974.
* Robert Lebel
L'inventeur
du temps gratuit [written 1943-1944] [short
story]. In Le surréalisme, même, no. 2 (Paris, Spring 1957); in
La double vue suivi de L'inventeur du temps gratuit. Illustrated
by Alberto Giacometti and Marcel Duchamp. Paris: le Soleil noir, 1964;
The Inventor of Gratuitous Time, in The Custom-house of Desire:
A half-century of surrealist stories. Translated with an introduction
by J. H. Matthews. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1975; The Inventor of Gratuitous Time. Translated by Sarah
Skinner Kilborne (with Julia Koteliansky), with a preface by André Gervais,
in Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, vol. 1,
no. 2 (New York, June 2000).
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Robert Lebel,
La Double Vue,
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* Michel Butor
Passage
de Milan,
[written 1950-1951] [novel]. Paris: Minuit, 1954; coll.
"10 / 18."
* Henri Pierre Roché
Victor.
[written 1957] [novel, left unfinished]. Critical edition by Danielle
Régnier-Bohler, preface and notes by Jean Clair. Paris: Centre Georges
Pompidou, 1977.
* Jean Suquet
Le
scorpion et la rose. Paris: Bourgois, 1970.
André Belleau (1930-1986)
"Discours de Marcel Duchamp ivre sur la condition
des filles du boulevard Saint-Laurent" [extract from a novel that was
never published]. Liberté, no. 76-77 (Montréal, September - October
1971).
Tom Stoppard, [pseud.] Thomas Straussler (1937-
)
Artist Descending A Staircase [play]. Performed
for the first time on the airwaves of the BBC, November 14, 1972; in Artist
Descending A Staircase and Where Are They Now?, two plays for
radio. London: Faber and Faber, 1973; Artiste descendant un escalier,
adaptation in French by Élisabeth Janvier. Martel: Éd. du Laquet, coll.
"Théâtre en poche," 1998.
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Henri Pierre Roché. Victor,
vol. 4 of the four-volume publication issued for the exhibition "L'Oeuvre
de Marcel Duchamp,"
31 January - 2 May, 1977.
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou |
Claude Simon (1913- )
Triptyque [novel]. Paris: Minuit, 1973;
Triptych. Translated by Helen R. Lane. New York: Viking Press,
1976.
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922- )
Topologie d'une cité fantôme,
[novel]. Paris: Minuit, 1976; Topology of a Phantom City. Translated
by J. A. Underwood. New York: Grove Press, 1977.
Souvenirs du triangle d'or [novel]. Paris: Minuit,
1978; Recollections of the Golden Triangle. Translated by J. A. Underwood.
London: J. Calder, 1984.
Le miroir qui revient.
Paris: Minuit, 1984; Ghosts in the Mirror. Translated by Jo Levy.
London: J. Calder, 1988.
Jacques Charlier (...- )
Rrose Melody. Liège: Association Art Promotion,
1977.
Bryan Ferry (...- )
The Bride Stripped Bare. [record]. EMI,
1978; [compact disc]. Virgin 47606-2 (distributed by EMI).
* Michel Leiris
Le ruban au cou d'Olympia. Paris: Gallimard,
1981.
Jean-François Vilar (1948- )
C'est toujours les autres qui meurent [novel].
Paris: Fayard, 1982; Paris: Éd. J'ai lu, coll. "Policier."
[1977, livre]
Jennifer Gough-Cooper (...- ) & Jacques Caumont (...- )
Rrose, sa vie sans cachotteries dépeinte
[...] [epic poem]. 1150 verses. Hautot-le-Vatois (Normandy, France): Académie
de Muséologie Évocatoire, 1985.
Michel Waldberg (1940- )
La boîte verte. Paris: Éd. de la Différence,
1995.
Walter Henry, [pseud.] Paul Braffort (...- )
Chu dans mer sale ou La rumination polymorphe.
Paris: la Bibliothèque oulipienne, no. 86, 1997.
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III. Those who have published a literary work (novel,
short story, poem, etc.) "in honor of" or "in partial honor of" Marcel
Duchamp or his work;
Note: Names preceded by an asterisk have already
been listed in Section I.
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
" Love - chemical relationship" [poem]. Dedicated to
Marcel Duchamp. In The Little Review, vol. 5, no. 2 (New York,
June 1918).
"Mefk Maru Mustir Daas" [poem]. Dedicated to Marcel
Duchamp. In The Little Review, vol. 5, no. 8 (New York, December
1918).
Francis Picabia
Pensées sans langage [written from October (?) 1918
to March 1919] [poem in book form]. Dedicated thus: "Chers amis Gabrielle
Buffet, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, je vous dédie
ce poème en raison de notre sympathie élective." ("My dear friends Gabrielle
Buffet, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, I dedicate
this poem to you because of our elective sympathy."). Paris: Eugène Figuière,
1919; Écrits, Volume I: 1913-1920. Paris: Belfond, coll. "Les bâtisseurs
du XXe siècle," 1975.
* André Breton
"À Rrose Sélavy" [1923] [poem]. In Clair de
terre. Paris: coll. "Littérature," 1923; Earthlight, translated
by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993.
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Pierre de
Massot.
The Wonderful Book. Reflections on Rrose Sélavy (1924), in Étant
donné Marcel Duchamp, n° 2, (Baby [France] February 2000),
pp. 97~120 |
* Pierre de Massot
"Mode d'emploi" [written June 8, 1923] [poem]. Dedicated
to Rrose Sélavy: "pour Rrose Sélavy"]. In Poésie 1, no. 23: Jacques
Baron, Pierre de Massot, Philippe Soupault: trois poètes surréalistes
(Paris, March 1972); Étant donné Marcel Duchamp, no. 2, (Baby [France],
February 2000). "Jeu du 'dans' " [written in early
1950's (?)] [poem]. Dedicated to Marcel Duchamp: "pour Marcel Duchamp
". In Poésie 1, no. 23: Jacques Baron, Pierre de Massot, Philippe
Soupault: trois poètes surréalistes, (Paris, March 1972); Étant
donné Marcel Duchamp, no. 2, (Baby [France], February 2000).
The Wonderful Book. Reflections on Rrose Sélavy.
Paris: hors commerce [Imprimerie Ravilly], s.d. [1924]; Étant donné Marcel
Duchamp, no. 2, (Baby [France], February 2000).
5 poëmes [written from 1931 to 1946] [poems].
Dedicated to Marcel Duchamp : "À Marcel Duchamp." With a portrait of the
author by Francis Picabia. Paris: hors commerce [Imprimerie Gaschet et
Cie], 1946.
Louis Aragon (1897-1985)
"La
force" [poem]. Dedicated to Marcel Duchamp: "à Marcel Duchamp." In
Le mouvement perpétuel (poems 1921-1924). Paris: Gallimard, 1926.
Georges Hugnet (1906-1974)
Marcel Duchamp [written November 8, 1939]
[poem]. With a frontispiece by Marcel Duchamp. Paris: hors commerce, 1941.
Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
Avalanche [novel]. Dedicated in English and in
French: "To Monsieur and Madame Rrose Sélavy ." New York: Simon and Schuster,
1944.
"A complaint for Mary and Marcel." In Collected
poems. Port Townsend (Wa): Copper Canyon Press, 1970.
Henri-François Rey (1919-1987)
Les pianos mécaniques [written (in Cadaquès)
from March 1961 to February 1962]
[novel]. Paris: Laffont, 1962; coll. "Le livre de poche"; The Mechanical
Pianos. Translated by Peter Wiles. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1965.
David Young (1946- )
Agent Provocateur [novel]. Dedicated in
English: "For Marcel Duchamp." Toronto: Coach House Press, 1976.
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André Breton. Au Lavoir noir.
Paris: G.L.M, 1936 |
IV. Literary works "illustrated"
by Marcel Duchamp (alone or in collaboration) or by Marcel Duchamp and
another artist.
Note: Names preceded by an asterisk have already been listed in Section
I.
Alfred Jarry (1873-1907)
Ubu
roi [1896]. Paris: Fasquelle, 1921; Reliure pour "Ubu roi" d'Alfred
Jarry [1935]. Designed by Marcel Duchamp and created by Mary Reynolds.
Ubu roi [drama in five acts]. Translated by Barbara Wright. London:
Gaberbocchus P., 1966; Ubu Rex. Translated by David Copelin. Vancouver:
Pulp Press, 1977; in Three Pre-Surrealist Plays. Translated with
an introduction and notes by Maya Slater. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
* André Breton
Au lavoir noir [poem].
With a window by Marcel Duchamp. Paris: GLM, coll. "Repères," [January]
1936; Illustration pour "Au lavoir noir" d'André Breton (1935).
Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares / Jeunes
cerisiers garantis contre les lièvres [selection of poems]. Translated
by Édouard Roditi, with drawings by Arshile Gorky. New York: View Editions,
[March or April] 1946; Couverture pour "Young Cherry Trees Secured
Against Hares" d'André Breton (1945-1946).
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Breton. Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares. Édouard
Roditi (trans.). New York: View Editions, 1946 |
Georges Hugnet
La septième face du dé
[poems, paper cutouts]. Cover cigarettes by Marcel Duchamp. Paris: Éd. Jeanne
Bucher, [May] 1936; Couverture pour "La septième face du dé" de Georges
Hugnet (1936).
Marcel Duchamp [written November 8, 1939]
[poem]. With a frontispiece by Marcel Duchamp. Paris: hors commerce, 1941;
Moustache et barbe de L.H.O.O.Q. (1941).
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Hebdomeros. Paris: Éd. du Carrefour, 1929;
Reliure pour "Hebdomeros" de Giorgio de Chirico (1936-1939). Designed
by Marcel Duchamp and created by Mary Reynolds.
Francis Picabia
L'équilibre [written in 1917] [poem]. With
an engraving by Marcel Duchamp. Alès: PAB, [August] 1958.
Pierre-André Benoit (1921-1993)
Première lumière [poem]. With an engraving
by Marcel Duchamp. Alès: PAB, [August] 1959.
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Georges Hugnet. La septième
face du dé.
Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1936 |
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Georges Hugnet, Marcel Duchamp,
poem, and Moustache et barbe de L.H.O.O.Q. (1941) by Duchamp.
Paris: Hors Commerce, 1941 |
*Pierre de Massot
Tiré à quatre épingles
[poems]. With an engraving by Marcel Duchamp. Alès: PAB, [Summer] 1959.
Marcel Duchamp. Propos et souvenirs. With
a rectified readymade, in color, by Marcel Duchamp. Milan: chez Arturo
Schwarz, 1965; L.H.O.O.Q. (replica, September 1964); Étant donné
Marcel Duchamp, no. 2 (Baby [France] February 2000).
* Arturo Schwarz
Il Reale Assoluto [poems]. In Italian. With
eleven lithographies by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Milan: Galleria Schwarz,
1964; Certificat de lecture (February-March 1964).
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Pierre-André Benoit. Première
lumière.
Alès: PAB, 1959 |
Pierre
de Massot. Tiré à quatre épingles. Alès: PAB, 1959 |
* Robert Lebel
La
double vue suivi de
L'inventeur du temps gratuit. With an etched
diptych by Alberto Giacometti and a folding by Marcel Duchamp (in the
first 111 exemplary copies), with an etching by Ferró (in the next 150
exemplary copies). Paris: le Soleil noir, 1964; La pendule de profil
(1964).
E-mail André Gervais with suggestions and
comments: Andre_Gervais@uqar.uquebec.ca
 1.
This retrospective contains Mont de piété [1919, with two drawings
by André Derain], Clair de terre [1923, with a portrait by Pablo
Picasso], L'union libre [1931], Le revolver à cheveux blancs
[1932, with an etching by Salvador Dali], Violette Nozières [1933],
L'air de l'eau [1934, with four engravings by Alberto Giacometti]
and Au lavoir noir [1936, with a window by Marcel Duchamp].
2.
This retrospective contains [Poèmes 1935-1940], Pleine marge [1943,
with an etching by Kurt Seligmann], Fata morgana [1941, with four
drawings by Wilfredo Lam], [Poèmes 1940-1943], Les états généraux
[1944], Des épingles tremblantes [1948], Xénophiles [1948],
Ode à Charles Fourier [1947], Oubliés [1948], Constellations
[1959, with 22 gouaches by Juan Miró] and Le la [1961, with a lithograph
by Jean Benoît].
3.
This retrospective contains, in whole or in part, the following brief,
small books: Soliloque de Nausicaa [1928, with five drawings by
Jean Cocteau], 5 poëmes [1946, with a portrait of the author by
Francis Picabia], Orestie [1949], Mot clé des mensonges
[1954], Galets abandonnés sur la page [1958, with an etching by
Jacques Villon] and Tiré à quatre épingles [1959, with an engraving
by Marcel Duchamp], to which is added Prison de neige, poems written
from 1960 to 1961.
4.
This recent retrospective adds to the preceding several other poems as
well as a study and a biography.
5.
This retrospective contains the following books: Simulacre [1925],
Le point cardinal [1927], Glossaire: j'y serre mes gloses
[1939 (begun in 1925), with some lithographies by André Masson], Bagatelles
végétales [1956, with six engravings by Juan Miró] and Marrons
sculptés pour Miró [1961, with a color lithograph by Juan Miró]. The
Glossaire... has a continuation: Langage tangage ou Ce que les
mots me disent [Paris: Gallimard, 1985].
6.
On the jacket flap: "Manuscripts chosen by scissor cuts, photographs most
often in black and white, articles lost among dead papers, dialogues in
person, winking at some friends, retracing the voyage without a clock
or a compass."
7.
Michel Butor, during the discussion following the paper of Patrice Quéréel
on this book, as part of a colloquium on Butor's work (June 24 - July
1, 1973), made this clear: "In regard to that which concerns the ideological
machinery of State, I have been constantly reminded, while listening to
you, of Marcel Duchamp: there was in the way you see these institutions
the model of the Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp who is evoked in
various manners in this book." This in Butor. Colloque de Cerisy,
under the direction of Georges Raillard, (Paris: UGÉ [coll. "10 / 18,"
no. 902] 1974), p. 84.
8.
Georges Raillard, in "Mots de passe. Quelques notes prises au cours d'une
traversée difficile: La belle captive [1976]," (Obliques,
Les Pilles, no. 16-17, Robbe-Grillet, 4th Quarter 1978), quotes
the dedication from the author on an exemplary copy of Topologie...:
" quelque chose comme mon Grand Verre ." ["Something like my Large
Glass. "]
9.
Georges Raillard calls "Le Grand Verre de Robbe-Grillet " [La Quinzaine
littéraire, no. 432, (Paris, January 16-31, 1985)] his critique of
the first volume of this "robbegrilletian autobiography," of which the
general title is Romanesques.
10.
This novel contains only a brief allusion to Duchamp who, from 1958 to
1968, spent one or more months in the spring or summer in this catalan
village.
Figs. 1-10
©2000 Succession Marcel Duchamp, ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris. All rights
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