« Une seule pensée » [Liberté]

Name: « Une seule pensée » [Liberté]
SKU: 31569
Author: Paul Éluard

in La France Libre, vol. IV, no. 23. London, Hamish Hamilton, September 15, 1942.

1 vol. (175 x 245 mm) of 404 p. and [5] f. [advertisements]. In wrappers.

Second edition of the poem “Une seule pensée” [Liberté] in its entirety. It is reprinted, from London, from the edition published in Algiers in Max-Pol Fouchet's review Fontaine, issued in June of the same year.

Under the heading “Poèmes,” La France Libre, a review published in London under the direction of André Labarthe and Raymond Aron, presented two poems — “Une seule pensée” (the original title of “Liberté”) by Paul Éluard and “Cantos” by Pierre Emmanuel — together with Albert Béguin’s closing piece quoting four excerpts from poems by Jules Supervielle, Pierre Jean Jouve, Pierre Emmanuel and Louis Aragon; they appear on pp. 397–400 of this issue.

“Une seule pensée” opens this section and is printed on pp. 397–398. Like the other poems mentioned above, it is taken from the June 1942 issue of the review Fontaine, making this appearance chronologically the second publication of the complete poem, and its third mention overall (after that in Candide, which had only given an excerpt).

This publication preceded by about a fortnight the book edition prepared in Paris by Paul Éluard and Noël Arnaud for La Main à plume, in which the poem would appear under its definitive title “Liberté,” within the collection Poésie et vérité 1942.

Rare.

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