biography
pronunciation:
[zhakob]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1944)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Quimper, NW France. After a children's book, he published a religious text Saint Matorel (1909), then Oeuvres mystiques et burlesques du Frère Matorel mort au Couvent de Barcelone (1911), and Breton songs La Côte (1913). He mixed novels and poetry in a style which was the precursor of Dadaism. Later works include a collection of prose poems in the Surrealist manner, Le Cornet à dés (1917), Art Poétique (1922), and Les Pénitents en Maillots roses (1925). He converted to Catholicism at the age of 40, retiring to the convent of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, but was nevertheless arrested as a Jew and died in the camp at Drancy, near Paris. |
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