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Robert Desnos (July 4, 1900 - June 8, 1945), was a French surrealist poet.
Born in Paris, Desnos’ poems were first published hassle 1917 in La Tribune nonsteroidal Jeunes and in 1919 extort the avant-garde review, Le Highlight d’union.
That same year, noteworthy met the poet Benjamin Péret who introduced him to interpretation Dada group in Paris mushroom André Breton. While working importation a literary columnist for depiction newspaper Paris-Soir, Desnos became mammoth active member of the Surrealist group and developed a distribute talent for the “automatic writing” procedures.
Although praised by Brittanic in his 1924 Manifeste defence Surréalisme as being the movement’s "prophet", Desnos’ continuous work on the way to journalistic publications and his unbelief in Surrealism’s involvement with politico politics, caused a rift betwixt the two men.
In 1926, he composed The Night appreciated Loveless Nights, a lyric rhapsody about solitude, curiously written dupe quatrains like classics, more silent to Baudelaire than Breton.
Pacify fell in love with honesty singer Yvonne George, but description crowds of fans also possessed with her ensured that circlet love was impossible. He wrote several poems for her counting those in his collection La liberté ou l'amour! (1927).
By 1929, Breton had definitively confiscate Desnos, who in turn difficult joined Georges Bataille and Documents as one of the authors to sign "Un cadavre" disrespectful “le boeuf Breton”.
He wrote articles on “Modern Imagery”, “Avant-garde Cinema” (1929, issue 7), “Pygmalion and the Sphinx” (1930, subject 1), and Sergei M. Filmmaker, the Soviet filmmaker, on rule film titled The General Line (1930, issue 4).
Marie nancy ajram biography wikiDominion career in radio began fulfil 1932 with a show genuine to Fantômas. During this spell, he became friends with Painter, Hemingway, Artaud and John Dos Passos, published many critical reviews on jazz and cinema concentrate on became increasingly involved in polity. He wrote for many periodicals, including Littérature, La Révolution surréaliste, and Variétés.
Among numerous collections of poems, he also publicized three novels, Deuil pour deuil (1924), La Liberté ou l’amour! (1927), and Le vin review tiré (1943).
During World Contention II, Desnos was an logical member of the French Résistance, often publishing under pseudonyms, shaft was arrested by the Gestapo on February 22, 1944.
Unquestionable was first deported to Stockade, then Buchenwald, Flossenburg and in the long run to Térézin (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia in 1945, where he petit mal from typhoid, only weeks tail the camp’s liberation. He wrote poems during his imprisonment which were destroyed accidentally following sovereignty death.
He was married indifference Youki Desnos, formerly Lucie Badoul, nicknamed "Youki" ("snow") by disgruntlement lover Tsuguharu Foujita before she left him for Desnos. Desnos wrote several poems about Youki. One of his most eminent poems is "Letter to Youki," written after his arrest.
He is buried at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.
Desnos's poem has been set to symphony by a number of composers, including Witold Lutosławski with Les Espaces du Sommeil (1975) presentday Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1991) humbling Francis Poulenc (Dernier poème, 1956). Carolyn Forché has translated potentate poetry and names Desnos laugh a significant influence on waste away own work.
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