Desnos, Robert Born July 4, 1900, in Paris; died June 8, 1945, in Terezin, Czechoslovakia.
Through the chaos of his “verbal alchemy” shines a genuine passion and rebellious hate for the petit bourgeois way of life (the collection With Body and Soul, 1930). Desnos was initially a dadaist and later a surrealist. Born on July 4, 1900, in Paris, Robert Desnos was the son of a café owner. Robert Desnos, (born July 4, 1900, Paris—died June 8, 1945, Terezín, Czech. French poet. ), French poet who joined André Breton in the early Surrealist movement, soon becoming one of its most valuable members because of his ability to fall into a hypnotic trance, under which he could recite his dreams, write, and draw. The son of a successful café owner, Desnos rebelled against his father’s plans for a bourgeois education and pursued literature, idolizing authors such as Gerard de Nerval, Arthur Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo.
It was a set of … He attended commercial college, and then worked as a clerk before becoming a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir.He first published poems in the Dadaist magazine Littérature in 1919, and in 1922 he published his first book, Rrose Selavy, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms. In 1974, at the urging of Robert Desnos' widow, Joan Miró published an "illustrated book" with text from Robert Desnos titled Les pénalités de l'enfer ou les nouvelles Hébrides (The Penalties of Hell or The New Hebrides), Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974. Poet and journalist Robert Desnos was born in Paris, France. Robert Desnos- the death of a poet Posted on June 8, 2018 by dirkdeklein under France , History , Holocaust , Theresienstadt concentration camp , World War 2 Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900,the son of a successful café owner,He was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement.