Robert Desnos

Robert Desnos was born in Paris in 1900 and grew up in the Les Halles district. Secretary to the journalist Jean de Bonnefon, he did his military service in Morocco, then joined the surrealist group, where he excelled at automatic writing. His refusal to follow the group towards communism drew him away from it at the end of the twenties. He then worked for the press, radio, advertising and cinema. After joining the Resistance, he was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1944, then deported. He died at Terezín in June 1945.

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• PoetryCorps et biensRobert Desnos · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature