Portrait de l'acteur AB dans son rôle mémorable de l'an de grâce 1713
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Portrait de l'acteur AB dans son rôle mémorable de l'an de grâce 1713[1] (1941, Portrait of Actor A.B. in his memorable Role, the Year of Our Lord 1713) is an object-poem by André Breton.
References
André Breton: The Object Poem (1942) in Surrealism and Painting
The historical events in 1713 that Breton alludes to are:
Mistakenly, the marriage of Saunderson. The birth of Diderot. Mistakenly, the birth of Vaucanson. The Treaty of Utrecht. The papal bull Unigenitus by Pope Clement XI , which definitely led to the condemnation of Jansenist positions by the catholic church. The little glass valise at the bottom represents a means for time travelling.
Curiously enough, weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft was also very impressed by Berkeley Square. He went to see the film four times and drew inspiration from it for his novella The Shadow out of Time. In one of his letters he wrote:
It is the most weirdly perfect embodiment of my own moods and pseudo-memories that I have ever seen–for all my life I have felt as if I might wake up out of this dream of an idiotic Victorian age and insane jazz age into the sane reality of 1760 or 1770 or 1780 . . . the age of the white steeples and fanlighted doorways of the ancient hill, and of the long-s’d books of the old dark attic trunk-room at 454 Angell Street. God Save the King!
