biography
pronunciation:
[soopoh]
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| lived:
| (1897–1990)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Chaville, NC France. He was co-founder with André Breton and Louis Aragon of the review Littérature (1919). In 1920 he co-wrote with Breton Les Champs magnétiques, his first major Surrealist work, which featured ‘automatic writing’. He later broke with Surrealism to write novels and essays, his novels including Le Nègre (1927), and Le Temps des Assassins (1945) about his imprisonment by the Vichy government. He was awarded the Grand Prix de Poésie of the French Academy in 1972. Memoires de l'oubli (1981) is an autobiography. |
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