He was innate within Paris. He was the bad student, however fell enamored sustaining literature & began publishing verse form. He became the friend of Benjamin Péret and in 1922 began practising automatic writing, notably under hypnosis. He fell smitten sustaining a singer Yvonne George, but a crowds of fans too obsessed by having her ensured that his love was impossible. He wrote many verse form for her including victims around his collection ''La liberté ou 50'affair (1927), which was condemmned for obscenity.

Inside 1926 he composed The Nighttime of Loveless Nights,'' the lyric all about solitude, curiously written inside quatrains such as classics, further similar to Baudelaire than Breton. Around 1936, he tried writing the verse form a day for a year.

Desnos was one of a virtually all active members of the Surrealist group, and was a prophet of the movement based on data from André Breton.

When you took World War II Desnos worked for the French Resistance. He was arrested per Gestapo on February 22 1944 and sent to Auschwitz before being transferred to Theresienstadt. There he contracted typhoid, which killed him. He is interred at a Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.

Desnos's poetry has been placed to music by the total of composers, including Witold Lutoslawski (in Les Espaces du Sommeil, 1975, and Chantefleurs et Chantefables, 1991) and Francis Poulenc ("Dernier poème", 1956).

Other Works

Corps et biens (1930) État de veille (1943)

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