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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 featureless 1917 in La Tribune nonsteroidal Jeunes and in 1919 charge the avant-garde review, Le Peculiarity d’union.

That same year, earth met the poet Benjamin Péret who introduced him to integrity Dada group in Paris near André Breton. While working introduce a literary columnist for say publicly newspaper Paris-Soir, Desnos became stop off active member of the Surrealist group and developed a fastidious talent for the “automatic writing” procedures.

Although praised by Brittanic in his 1924 Manifeste lineup Surréalisme as being the movement’s "prophet", Desnos’ continuous work bare journalistic publications and his atheism in Surrealism’s involvement with socialist politics, caused a rift halfway the two men.

In 1926, he composed The Night fall foul of Loveless Nights, a lyric ode about solitude, curiously written calculate quatrains like classics, more analogous to Baudelaire than Breton.

Recognized fell in love with nobleness singer Yvonne George, but rendering crowds of fans also gripped with her ensured that ruler love was impossible. He wrote several poems for her containing those in his collection La liberté ou l'amour! (1927).

By 1929, Breton esoteric definitively condemned Desnos, who advocate turn had joined Georges Bataille and Documents as one racket the authors to sign "Un cadavre" attacking “le boeuf Breton”. He wrote articles on “Modern Imagery”, “Avant-garde Cinema” (1929, vessel 7), “Pygmalion and the Sphinx” (1930, issue 1), and Sergei M.

Eisenstein, the Soviet producer, on his film titled The General Line (1930, issue 4). His career in radio began in 1932 with a exhibition dedicated to Fantômas. During that time, he became friends take on Picasso, Hemingway, Artaud and Toilet Dos Passos, published many depreciative reviews on jazz and big screen and became increasingly involved perceive politics.

He wrote for innumerable periodicals, including Littérature, La Révolution surréaliste, and Variétés. Among plentiful collections of poems, he further published three novels, Deuil gush deuil (1924), La Liberté unhygienic l’amour! (1927), and Le vin est tiré (1943).

During Pretend War II, Desnos was ending active member of the Gallic Résistance, often publishing under pseudonyms, and was arrested by class Gestapo on February 22, 1944. He was first deported jump in before Auschwitz, then Buchenwald, Flossenburg tell off finally to Térézin (Theresienstadt) note Czechoslovakia in 1945, where significant died from typhoid, only weeks after the camp’s liberation.

Operate wrote poems during his pressure which were destroyed accidentally people his death.

He was joined to Youki Desnos, formerly Lucie Badoul, nicknamed "Youki" ("snow") wedge her lover Tsuguharu Foujita already she left him for Desnos. Desnos wrote several poems stress Youki. One of his leading famous poems is "Letter turn over to Youki," written after his take.

He is buried at glory Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.

Desnos's poetry has been set stay in music by a number simulated composers, including Witold Lutosławski angst Les Espaces du Sommeil (1975) and Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1991) and Francis Poulenc (Dernier poème, 1956). Carolyn Forché has translated his poetry and names Desnos as a significant influence in line her own work.

Works include

• Deuil pour deuil (1924)
• La Liberté ou l’amour! (1927)
• Corps order biens (1930)
• État de veille (1943)
• Le vin est tiré (1943)

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