O jeunesse robert desnos biography

Biography

Born on July 4, 1900, in Paris, Robert Desnos was the son of a café owner. He attended commercial college, and then worked as a clerk before becoming a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir.

He first published poems in the Dadaist magazine Littérature in 1919, and in 1922 he published his first book, Rrose Selavy, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms.

While on leave in Morocco from his mandatory two years in the French Army, Desnos befriended poet Andre Breton.

Together with writers Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard, Breton and Desnos would form the vanguard of literary surrealism.

Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July and spent his childhood in the Les Halles district.

Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July and spent his childhood in the Les Halles district.

Ferdinand Desnos est un peintre naïf autodidacte né à Pontlevoy (Loir-et-Cher) le 29 juillet , vivait rue Gay-Lussac à Paris, mort à Paris le

17 arrondissement de Paris.

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Robert Desnos () was hailed as 'the prophet of Surrealism' – 'Words have stopped playing: words are making love': so said André Breton.

They practiced a technique known as "automatic writing," and many hailed Desnos as the most accomplished practitioner. Breton, in the Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924, singled out Desnos for particular praise. The technique involved drifting into a trance and then recording the associations and leaps of the subconscious mind.

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