Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos is a French surrealist and resistance poet, born July 4, 1900 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and died of typhus on June 8, 1945 at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in Czechoslovakia one month after his liberation by the Red Army on the last day of the war.
Resources
A century of writers: Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos, a poet told by his friends, 1958, France Culture
The Starfish, poem by Robert Desnos, as seen by Man Ray, film 1928
Man Ray's The Starfish: Historical background and interpretation
Montparnasse - Where The Muses Hold Sway, (1929)
Jacques Prévert “The Montparnasse Years” | INA Archive
Jacques Prévert talks about Robert Desnos
Association of Friends of Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos resources - André Breton site
Robert Desnos resources — Mélusine site
News :
- Nadja, un itinéraire surréaliste – 2022-04-25
Bibliography of texts published in the NRF
The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Robert Desnos, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.
Texts about Robert Desnos
These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, interviews conducted by the author, or works edited by the author.
- La Liberté ou l'Amour, par Robert Desnos (Kra), by Gabriel Bounoure, 1931-06-01, Notes : la poésie
- De l'érotisme, par Robert Desnos (Cercle des Arts), by Jean Guérin, 1953-06-01, Revue des livres
Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)
This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.
Bibliography of texts published in the journal Commerce
The texts below, published in the journal Commerce, are grouped into two sets: texts by Robert Desnos and texts translated by the author.