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Desnos, Robert

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Desnos, Robert (1900-1945)

French poet. One of the early surrealists (see surrealism), his poetry includes Corps et biens (1930), Etat de veille (1943), and Calixto (1953). He also published volumes of poetic prose, La Liberté ou l'amour (1927), Deuil pour deuil (1944), and the posthumous La Rue de la Gaîté (1947).

During World War II he was a member of the Resistance and died some weeks after being freed from a German concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.


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