Georges Limbour

Georges Limbour ( born August 11, 1900 in Courbevoie, France, † 1970 in Cadiz, Spain) was a French writer, philosopher and poet.

Life

The son of a military man spent his childhood in Le Havre. Already early awakened in him a desire to travel. Around 1915 he began to write. He was friends with Pierre Bost, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Piel, Raymond Queneau and Armand Salacrou. In 1918 he moved together with Dubuffet to Paris to study philosophy. From 1926 to 1929 he studied in Albania, Egypt, and in Warsaw. In the studio of André Masson he met Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, and other Surrealist, after which he became a member of Surrealistenbewegung. In 1930, he separated himself from the group around André Breton and joined the surrealist Georges Bataille splinter group. Previously he had published essays in Bataille's dissident Surrealistenzeitschrift Documents, including considerations of Paul Klee ( Issue 1, 1929). In January 1930 he was a signatory to the anti- Breton Protestpamphletes Un Cadavre. In the following years he wrote under several pseudonyms ( as " Garance ", " anti Moine Chevalet " or " André Lacombe " ) essays on artists. He was a Regent of the Collège de ' Pataphysique ( appointed prior to 1969 ).

Limbour, the life felt a strong connection to the sea, which he also brought in poems expressed, died in May in 1970 at a swimming accident at the beach of Cádiz.

Works

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