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Robert Desnos (1900–1945)

Author of Corps et biens

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Works by Robert Desnos

Corps et biens (1968) 81 copies
Liberty or Love! (1982) 54 copies
Fortunes (1942) 36 copies
Oeuvres (1999) 20 copies
Destinée arbitraire (1975) 19 copies
Jack l'eventreur (1997) 14 copies
The Die Is Cast (2021) 13 copies
Le Vin est tiré... (1992) 11 copies
Robert Desnos: 22 Poems (1971) 9 copies
Calixto (1962) 7 copies
Mourning for Mourning (1992) 7 copies
Robert Desnos: un poete (1980) 7 copies
Domaine public (2016) 6 copies
Robert Desnos (1962) 5 copies
Praatzieke duisternis (2017) 4 copies
Cinéma (1966) 3 copies
Herkenningen : vertaalde gedichten (1981) — Author — 3 copies
Fortune 2 copies
La ménagerie de Tristan (2000) 2 copies
Poèmes (2010) 2 copies
El Destripador (2010) 2 copies
Contrée / Calixto (2013) 2 copies
Design 1 copy
Dessins hypnotiques (2015) 1 copy
Sommeils (2022) 1 copy
Contre 1 copy
Voyage in Burgundy (2008) 1 copy
Mines de rien (1985) 1 copy
Les sans cou 1 copy
Poèmes en argot (2010) 1 copy

Associated Works

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 333 copies
Surrealist Love Poems (2001) — Contributor — 94 copies
Beastly Verse (2014) — Contributor — 86 copies
Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology (2001) — Contributor — 67 copies
Modern French Theatre (1964) — Contributor — 66 copies
The Shadow and its Shadow (1978) — Contributor — 63 copies
The Dedalus Book of Surrealism, I: The Identity of Things (1656) — Contributor — 58 copies
The Dedalus Book of Surrealism, II: The Myth of the World (1994) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Automatic Muse: Surrealist Novels (1922) — Contributor — 37 copies
Surrealism and the rue Blomet (2013) — Author — 8 copies
Il cinema d'avanguardia 1910 - 1930 (1983) — Author — 1 copy

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Canonical name
Desnos, Robert
Legal name
Desnos, Robert
Other names
Guillois, Valentin (Pseudonyme)
Ruynes, Pierre de (Pseudonyme)
Ruysnes, Pierre de (Pseudonyme)
Gallois, Lucien (Pseudonyme)
Andier, Pierre (Pseudonyme)
Birthdate
1900-07-04
Date of death
1945-06-08
Burial location
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Gender
male
Nationality
France
Country (for map)
France
Birthplace
Paris, France
Place of death
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Cause of death
Maladie (Fièvre typhoïde)
Places of residence
Paris, France
Education
Autodidacte
Occupations
poet
scriptwriter
resistance fighter
essayist
columnist
Relationships
Breton, Andre (friend)
Eluard, Paul (friend)
Aragon, Louis (friend)
Organizations
French Resistance (WWII)
Awards and honors
Médaille de la Résistance française
Short biography
Robert Desnos was born in Paris, the son of a prosperous café owner. He became a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir and published some of his first poems in the Dadaist magazine Littérature in 1919. In 1922, he published his first book, Rrose Selavy, a collection of Surrealistic aphorisms; the name was a pun on "Eros, c'est la vie." He befriended the poets André Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard, with whom he formed the literary vanguard of Surrealism. Desnos was hailed as the most accomplished practitioner of "automatic writing," which involved falling into a hypnotic trance and then reciting, writing, and drawing. Between 1920 and 1930, he published more than eight books of poetry. In the 1930s, he married Lucie "Youki" Badoud Foujita, and in addition to poems, wrote scripts for French radio and television. At the start of World War II in 1939, he served in the French Army. After France surrendered to Nazi Germany, he returned to Paris under the Occupation and worked for the Resistance. Using pseudonyms such as Lucien Gallois and Pierre Andier, he published a series of essays that subtly mocked the Nazis. In 1944, he was arrested and deported first to Auschwitz and then to the concentration camp at Terezín (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia. He survived to be liberated from the camp in 1945, but had contracted typhoid and died a few weeks later. His collection Selected Poems was first translated and published in English in 1972 and again in 1991.

Geboren in 1900, sloot hij zich aan bij de groep Dadaïsten, en werkte voor het tijdschrift "La Révolution Surréaliste". Na de breuk met de surrealisten, ging hij werken als journalist. Tijdens de oorlog ging hij in het verzet, werd gearresteerd en weggevoerd. Hij verbleef in verschillende concentratiekampen, en overleed op 8 juni 1945 te Mariënstadt.

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Texte illustré de Robert Desnos, poème d'Eluard dédié à Labisse. Sur papier couché, plus de 30 photos noir et blanc d'oeuvres de Labisse.
 
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> Nuit blanche, No. 78 (printemps 2000), pp. 16-17. … ; (en ligne),
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> Québec français, No. 118 (été 2000), p. 11. … ; (en ligne),
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Joop-le-philosophe | Jan 17, 2021 |
> Desnos, Robert. Destinée arbitraire. Textes réunis et présentés par Marie-Claire Dumas. Paris: Gallimard, 1975. Pp. 282, 6,90 F.
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In: The French Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Feb., 1977), pp. 527-528… ; (en ligne),
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