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    Robert Desnos

    French writer

    Robert Desnos (French:[ʁɔbɛʁdɛsnos]; 4 July – 8 June ) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement.

    Early life

    Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July , the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the Halles market. Desnos attended commercial college, and started work as a clerk. He also worked as an amanuensis for journalist Jean de Bonnefon.[1] After that he worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir.

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    Career

    The first poems by Desnos to appear in print were published in in La Tribune des Jeunes (Platform for Youth) and in in the avant-garde review Le Trait d'union (Hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine Littérature.

    In he published his first book, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms, with the title Rrose Sélavy (the name adopted as an "alternative persona" by the avant-garde French artist Marcel Duchamp; a pun on "Eros, c'est la vie").

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