Where did Robert Desnos do most of his work?
Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the Halles market. Desnos attended commercial college, and started work as a clerk. He also worked as an amanuensis for journalist Jean de Bonnefon. After that he worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir .
What kind of poetry does Robert Desnos write?
Humour, tenderness, and eroticism pervade his works, in which acrobatic verbal techniques never detract from the spontaneity of the inspiration. Dreams and reality merge in freely associated images in Corps et biens (1930; “Bodies and Goods”).
Who was Robert Desnos in love with in 1927?
Desnos fell in love with Yvonne George, a singer whose obsessed fans made his love impossible. He wrote several poems for her, as well as the erotic surrealist novel La liberté ou l’amour! (1927). Critic Ray Keenoy describes La liberté ou l’amour! as “literary and lyrical in its outpourings of sexual delirium”.
When did Robert Desnos write complaint de Fantomas?
In 1930 he broke from the doctrinaire Surrealist rigidity of Breton and for a decade wrote motion-picture and radio scripts, including the highly successful Complainte de Fantomas (1933; “Fantomas’ Lament”).
When did Robert Desnos publish his first poem?
After that he worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir . The first poems by Desnos to appear in print were published in 1917 in La Tribune des Jeunes (Platform for Youth) and in 1919 in the avant-garde review Le Trait d’union (Hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine Littérature.
Where is the grave of Robert Desnos located?
He is buried at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. Desnos’ poetry has been set to music by a number of composers, including Witold Lutosławski with Les Espaces du sommeil (1975) and Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1991), Francis Poulenc ( Dernier poème, 1956) and Henri Dutilleux with Le Temps l’Horloge (2007).
Who is Lucie Badoud and who is Robert Desnos?
Desnos was married to Youki Desnos, formerly Lucie Badoud, nicknamed “Youki” (“snow”) by her lover Tsuguharu Foujita before she left him for Desnos. Desnos wrote several poems about her. One of his most famous poems is “Letter to Youki”, written after his arrest.