Robert Desnos came from a merchant-class family and served in the French army during both World Wars. He was the most prolific of the early “automatic” poets, slipping easily into a trance and producing reams of poetry, or letting his weird images and sayings fall from his lips as the others listened. Rumors that heContinue reading “Surrealism’s “Prophet””
Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality. —Antonin Artaud