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Robert Desnos ( French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dɛsnos]; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement. Biography. Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the Halles market. Desnos attended commercial college, and started work as a clerk.
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Robert Desnos. 1900–1945. Poet and journalist Robert Desnos was born in Paris, France. The son of a successful café owner, Desnos rebelled against his father’s plans for a bourgeois education and pursued literature, idolizing authors such as Gerard de Nerval, Arthur Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo.
Feb 27, 2024 · Robert Desnos (born July 4, 1900, Paris—died June 8, 1945, Terezín, Czech.) was a French poet who joined André Breton in the early Surrealist movement, soon becoming one of its most valuable members because of his ability to fall into a hypnotic trance, under which he could recite his dreams, write, and draw. Texts from this period appeared ...
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Robert Desnos. 1900 –. 1945. Read poems by this poet. Robert Desnos was born on July 4, 1900, in Paris. Desnos was the son of a café owner. He attended commercial college, 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.
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Famous poet / Robert Desnos. 1900-1945. 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, Prose Selavy, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms.
Nov 7, 2017 · Robert Desnos was born in Paris on July 4, 1900, the son of a Parisian café owner. He worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir, at which point he became a committed member of the Surrealist movement. Paris-Soir newspaper | Paris-Soir/Wikimedia Commons.
Poet, radio celebrity, and journalist Robert Desnos was a founding member of the Paris Surrealists and pioneer in the technique of automatism. After breaking from André Breton in 1929, Desnos practiced his own version of Surrealism throughout the 1930s, proclaiming that “surrealism has fallen into the public domain.”.