The meeting of André Breton and Louis Aragon at Val de Grace hospital in 1917 was the origin of a passionate friendship that would lead to the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto in 1917 and A Wave of Dreams in 1924. Aragon’s letters to Breton from 1918 to 1931 reveal the bond of rivalry and jealousy that united and separated them until they broke off their relationship in the 1930.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 205-218.