Benjamin Péret

Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé, near Nantes, on 4 July 1899. Enlisted in the cuirassiers, he served in the First World War at Salonika. Demobilised, he settled in Paris in 1920, met André Breton there, took part in the Dada demonstrations, then in surrealism, to which he remained faithful all his life. Settled in Brazil in 1929, he was expelled from it in 1931 as a communist agitator. He fought in Spain in the anarchist ranks, was imprisoned in France in 1940, then lived in exile in Mexico, where he studied pre-Columbian myths. He died in Paris on 18 September 1959.

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• PoetryThe Big GameLe Grand JeuBenjamin Péret · 1928Literature