DESNOS, ROBERT

rôbĕrˈ dĕsnôsˈ, 1900–1945, French poet. Among the best-known surrealist poets, he was one of the chief proponents of so-called automatic writing. He put himself in a trance before writing many of his works. They include La Liberté ou l'amour [liberty or love] (1927), Corps et Biens [bodies and blessings] (1930), État de veille [wakefulness] (1943), Contrée [thwarted] (1944), Félix Labisse (1945), and Choix de poems [choice of poems] (1945). He also wrote a novel, Le Vin est tiré [the wine is killed] (1943), and a surrealistic drama, La Place de L'étoile (1945). During World War II, Desnos died as a prisoner in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

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books on: Desnos Robert  - 137 results

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The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos
Book by Mary Ann Gaws; University of Massachusetts Press, 1977
Subjects: Desnos, Robert--1900-1945--Criticism And Interpretation
...Alienation in the Early Novels of Robert Desnos." Modern Language Quarterly...1967 , pp. 473-77. ---. " Robert Desnos and the Flasks of Night." Yale...Claire Dumas. "Un scenario de Robert Desnos." Etudes cinematographiques...
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The Writer's Way in France
Book by Robert Greer Cohn; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960
Subjects: French Literature--History And Criticism
...Benedetto, 106 Curtius, Ernst Robert, 392 , 432 Cusanus, Nicolas...Alphonse, 392 Darwin, Charles-Robert, 19 , 22 , 42 Daudet, Alphonse...428 Deschamps, Eustache, 98 , 99 Desnos, Robert, 234 Desperiers, Bonaventure...
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Reading Douglas Dunn
Book by Robert Crawford, David Kinloch; Edinburgh University Press, 1992
Subjects: Dunn, Douglas--Criticism And Interpretation, Scotland--In Literature
...Mackay 116 , 117 , 119 Browning, Robert: Two in the Campagna 96; The Ring and the Book 29 Burns, Robert 37 , 116 , 129 , 173 , 177 -8 Buthlay...Thomas 12 , 149 Derrida, Jacques 172 Desnos, Robert 27 , 45 , 151 , 154 -6, 157...
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Makers of Modern Theatre
Book by Robert Leach; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Artaud, Antonin--1896-1948--Criticism And Interpretation, Brecht, Bertolt--1898-1956--Criticism And Interpretation, Me?Ierkhol?D, V. Ce--(Vsevolod Cemil?Evich)--1874-1940--Criticism And Interpretation, Stanislavsky, Konstantin--1863-1938--Criticism And Interpretation, Theater--History--20th Century
...The 15 , 55 , 74 -5, 85 Deathwatch 187 Deleuze, Gilles 194 Dench, Judi 143 Denoel, Robert 161 Derrida, Jacques 2 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 196 Desnos, Robert 163 Despair 193 Dessau, Paul 129 Diaghilev, Serge 154 Dickens, Charles 19 Diderot...
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The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art
Book by Robert Belton; University of Calgary Press, 1995
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century, Surrealism, Women In Art
...Bennington and I. McLeod. Chicago:University of Chicago, 1987. Descharnes, Robert. The World of Salvador Dali . New York:Harper Row, 1962. Desnos, Robert. Ecrits sur les peintres . Paris:Flammarion, 1984. . La Liberte on lamour...
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Du Desert a la Rue: La Fonction Des Voyages Extraordinaires Dans la Liberte Ou L'amour ! De Robert Desnos
Journal article by Yves Thomas; The Romanic Review, Vol. 95, 2004
Subjects: Desnos, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Desnos, Robert--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--History
...Dans la Liberte Ou Lamour ! De Robert Desnos. by Yves Thomas Un espace visible...manquent pas dans le recit de Robert Desnos La Liberte ou lamour ! (2) Apparaissant...chapitre se reduit a une epitaphe de Robert Desnos, presente linstant de l arrivee...
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Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life
Journal article by Martine Antle; French Forum, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life (Book)--Book reviews
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life. by Martine Antle Katharine Conley. Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life. Lincoln: University...
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Spoonerism as Literary Device in Desnos, Leiris, and Robaud
Journal article by Andrew Elbon; The Romanic Review, Vol. 87, 1996
Subjects: Desnos, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Leiris, Michel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Robaud, Jacques--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spoonerisms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...surrealiste 4 (1925) 22: "Robert Desnos--noces de la haine et des borders...perdus. Paris: Gallimard, 1969. Desnos, Robert. Corps et biens. Paris: Gallimard...1953. Dumas, Marie-Claire. Robert Desnos ou lexploration des limites...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
...understand or evaluate an important figure in American politics." John J. Miller. NYTBR, Oct. 10, 2004: 11. Desnos, Robert Robert Desnos: Surrealism and the Marvelous in Everyday Life. Katherine Conley. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004. 220...
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From Louis Feuillade to Johnny To: Olivier Assayas on the Future of French Cinema
Journal article by Louise Shea; French Forum, Vol. 34, 2009
Subjects: Cheung, Maggie, Feuillade, Louis--Works, Film criticism, French movies--Criticism and interpretation, Globalization, Irma Vep (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures, French--Criticism and interpretation, Movie criticism
...own fascination with Feuillade, Robert Desnos evokes the magical, erotic spell...Musidora into the mysterious idol of Desnos and Breton. The exhibition context...4:2 (2000): 417-433. Desnos, Robert. "Fantomas, les Vampires...
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Melvin Moti: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
Magazine article by Sven Lutticken; Artforum International, Vol. 44, February 2006
Subjects: Artists and museums--Services, Artists--Works, Museums--Services
...interview with the Surrealist poet Robert Desnos. In the interview, based on a variety...sources, a female voice interrogates "Desnos" about the famous/infamous "periode...brought them to the brink of an abyss; Desnos tries to make light of the incidents...
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The Science of Enchantment
Magazine article; Musical Times, Vol. 143, Spring 2002
Subjects: Classical music, Fairs & exhibitions, History, Paris France
...bassoon, percussion and piano, is a setting of a poem by Robert Desnos. Milhaud himself wrote about the work as follows...write a cantata for the inauguration of the museum. Robert Desnos, who was as capable of writing genuine poetry as occasional...
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State by State
Magazine article by Laura Wolff Scanlan; Humanities, Vol. 24, May/Jun 2003
Subjects: Exhibits, Humanities, Special events
...photographs of sites in Lawrence where Robert Frost lived and worked will open...Tower Square Mill in Lawrence. "Robert Frosts Lawrence: A Visual Record...de Mer, a film based on a poem by Robert Desnos; and Les Mysteres du Chateau du...
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Seeking 'Convulsive Beauty'
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 274, March 11, 2002
Subjects: Breton, Andre--Authorship, Exhibitions--Analysis, Surrealism--Exhibitions
...what it would have been like to be a Surrealist from Robert Motherwell, who as a young artist in New York in the...with one of my favorite lines from a Surrealist poet, Robert Desnos, bound to two women--Yvonne George and Youki Foujita...
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Still Lives: James Quandt on the Films of Pedro Costa
Magazine article by James Quandt; Artforum International, Vol. 45, September 2006
Subjects: Costa, Pedro--Works, Filmmakers--Works, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Works, Movies--Criticism and interpretation
...he would do to entice Clotilde back. (For this, Costa draws on a letter sent from Buchenwald by French Surrealist Robert Desnos, also an inspiration for Casa de Lava.) Contrary to the ironic promise of the films Portuguese title, Juventude...
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newspaper articles on: Desnos Robert  - 2 results

 
 
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Socks and Gloves Fit into Art Gallery; Exhibition Turns Everyday Items into Objects of Beauty
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 1, 2005
...died last year. They are embroidered with verses about sleep by the French surrealist poet Robert Desnos. An active member of the French resistance, Desnos was taken to Terezin concentration camp where he died shortly after being released in 1945...
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SOPHIE'S STORY; Once upon a Time Two Novelists Had a Child So Beautiful That They Turned Her into a Film Star and Gave Her an Album All of Her Own. Such Is the Tale of Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt's Daughter Sophie. Melissa Whitworth Meets a Nascent Literary Heroine
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 1, 2006
Subjects: Auster, Paul
...recording the album over two years. The result is a mixture of translated French poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Desnos and Philippe Soupault, and lyrics by Paul Auster. Once it was completed, Paul played it to his French publisher...


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encyclopedia articles on: Desnos Robert  - 3 results

 
 
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Desnos, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DESNOS, ROBERT rober desnos , 1900 1945, French poet. Among the best-known surrealist poets...surrealistic drama, La Place de Letoile (1945). During World War II, Desnos died as a prisoner in the Theresienstadt concentration camp...
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French Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Clement Marot and the dramas of Estienne Jodelle and Robert Garnier . The poet Ronsard and the six poets known collectively...surrealism include Francis Carco , Leon Paul Fargue, Robert Desnos , and Pierre-Jean Jouve. The poetry of Alexis Saint...
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Surrealism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are thus extraordinarily difficult to read. Among the leading surrealist writers were Louis Aragon , Paul Eluard , Robert Desnos , and Jean Cocteau , the last noted particularly for his surreal films. In art the movement became dominant in the...


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