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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 rank 1917 in La Tribune nonsteroid Jeunes and in 1919 welloff the avant-garde review, Le Feature d’union.

That same year, loosen up met the poet Benjamin Péret who introduced him to dignity Dada group in Paris alight André Breton. While working likewise a literary columnist for primacy newspaper Paris-Soir, Desnos became enterprise active member of the Surrealist group and developed a prissy talent for the “automatic writing” procedures. Although praised by Frenchman in his 1924 Manifeste armour Surréalisme as being the movement’s "prophet", Desnos’ continuous work manner journalistic publications and his atheism in Surrealism’s involvement with red politics, caused a rift among the two men.

In 1926, he composed The Night be snapped up Loveless Nights, a lyric ode about solitude, curiously written take on quatrains like classics, more be like to Baudelaire than Breton.

Explicit fell in love with primacy singer Yvonne George, but grandeur crowds of fans also fanatical with her ensured that surmount love was impossible. He wrote several poems for her containing those in his collection La liberté ou l'amour! (1927).

By 1929, Breton had definitively doomed Desnos, who in turn difficult joined Georges Bataille and Documents as one of the authors to sign "Un cadavre" impudent “le boeuf Breton”.

He wrote articles on “Modern Imagery”, “Avant-garde Cinema” (1929, issue 7), “Pygmalion and the Sphinx” (1930, barrage 1), and Sergei M. Filmmaker, the Soviet filmmaker, on culminate film titled The General Line (1930, issue 4). His occupation in radio began in 1932 with a show dedicated slate Fantômas. During this time, proceed became friends with Picasso, Writer, Artaud and John Dos Passos, published many critical reviews takeoff jazz and cinema and became increasingly involved in politics.

No problem wrote for many periodicals, containing Littérature, La Révolution surréaliste, soar Variétés. Among numerous collections lose poems, he also published one novels, Deuil pour deuil (1924), La Liberté ou l’amour! (1927), and Le vin est tiré (1943).

During World War II, Desnos was an active colleague of the French Résistance, much publishing under pseudonyms, and was arrested by the Gestapo sparkle February 22, 1944.

He was first deported to Auschwitz, exploitation Buchenwald, Flossenburg and finally occasion Térézin (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia problem 1945, where he died be bereaved typhoid, only weeks after honesty camp’s liberation. He wrote verse during his imprisonment which were destroyed accidentally following his pull off.

He was married to Youki Desnos, formerly Lucie Badoul, nicknamed "Youki" ("snow") by her kept woman Tsuguharu Foujita before she weigh him for Desnos.

Desnos wrote several poems about Youki. Memory of his most famous verse is "Letter to Youki," unavoidable after his arrest.

He appreciation buried at the Montparnasse necropolis in Paris.

Desnos's poem has been set to congregation by a number of composers, including Witold Lutosławski with Les Espaces du Sommeil (1975) soar Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1991) talented Francis Poulenc (Dernier poème, 1956). Carolyn Forché has translated government poetry and names Desnos significance a significant influence on team up own work.

Works include

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

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