Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos ( born July 4, 1900 in Paris, † June 8, 1945 in Theresienstadt) was a French writer and journalist. Influenced in particular by Nerval and Baudelaire, he wrote mainly poetry - even still in concentration camps. One of his main themes was one of love. Ehrenburg approvingly quotes Paul Éluard: "Of all the poets I knew, Desnos was the most immediate, the most free; he was a poet who never left the inspiration; he could speak, how can barely write a poet. He was the bravest of them all. "
Life
Desnos leaves his petty-bourgeois parents' house at age 16, joins anarchist circles, feeds on odd jobs. After his military service in Morocco, the young writer encounters in 1919 to the Paris Dadaists around Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Éluard, Philippe Soupault, Max Ernst and Francis Picabia. In the so-called "period of sleep states " to Desnos employs a priority with the exploration of the unconscious, manufactures numerous Traumprotokolle. He considers himself primarily as a journalist on the water, so for the Surrealist journal La Révolution Surréaliste (12 numbers, 1924-1929 ) and Eugène Merle Paris Matinal. Reprimanded by André Breton in the Second Surrealist Manifesto in 1930, Desnos responds with a contribution in the anti - Breton pamphlet Un Cadavre ( a cadaver ) on which Georges Ribemont - Dessaignes, Georges Bataille, Jacques Prévert, Georges Limbour, Roger Vitrac, Antonin Artaud Philippe Soupault, André Masson and Jacques -André Boiffard mitsch rubbed. According to Winfried Engler he sits down so that by the surrealist "aesthetics of incomprehensibility " from. Another point of contention is the Communist Party, wants to know nothing of the Desnos unlike Breton. During this time he met his Japanese lover ( and much sung Muse) Youki Foujita know. From disgust at newspaper company he is employed by a housing agency in 1931. From 1935, he mainly works for radio. In the newspaper Aujourd'hui he argues against the ( right-wing ) writers Céline. Starting in 1936, active in the French Resistance Résistance, he is arrested in 1944 after being denounced by the German occupying forces. He goes through several concentration camps and has to do forced labor in the production of armaments. A few weeks after the liberation of the concentration camp Theresienstadt he dies of typhoid.
Works
- Deuil pour deuil, poems, 1924
- La Liberté ou l' amour, Paris 1927
- L' etoile de mer, Film, 1928 (together with Man Ray )
- Corps et biens, Poems 1921-1929, Paris 1930
- Sans - cou, poems, 1934
- La cantate pour l' inauguration du Musée de l' Homme, cantata, 1937 (with Darius Milhaud )
- Fortunes, poems, Paris 1942
- Le vin est tiré, novel, Paris 1943
- Etat de veille, poems, 1943
- Choix de poèmes, poems, 1946
- Ouvre posthumous poems, 1947
- Domaine public, poems, 1953
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