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2 unusual facts about Robert Desnos


L'Étoile de mer

The film is based on a script by Robert Desnos and depicts a couple (Alice Prin and André de la Rivière) acting through scenes that are shot out of focus.

Le temps l'horloge

-- note on case: A Google Books search turns up three hits, one of which (1991) uses proper French title case, the other two (1976, 1991) using sentence case (Le temps l’horloge) --> and "Le masque"), one by Robert Desnos ("Le dernier poème"') and Charles Baudelaire's prose-poem, "Enivrez-vous".


Carolyn Forché

Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (2003), Claribel Alegría's Sorrow (1999), and Robert Desnos's Selected Poetry (with William Kulik, for the Modern English Poetry Series, 1991).

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt

The surrealist Paul Éluard lived in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, and invited several future surrealists to his home including Max Ernst, André Breton and Robert Desnos.


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