Who is paul eluard

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Press Center. First Book Award. James Laughlin Award. Ambroggio Prize. The following year, he worked in an auxiliary capacity at a military evacuation hospital, just 10 kilometres from the war front. His job involved writing letters to the families of the dead and wounded while at night he dug graves.

His mother gradually warmed to their relationship although his father was not easily won over. A month later he was hospitalised once more, this time with incipient pleurisy.

Gala helped him to prepare covering letters to literary figures who had taken a fierce stand against the War. They determined to create an art form that could express their feelings about their massacred friends and the oppressed and coerced youth of France. The men were initially drawn to the Dada movement which had originated in Zurich, Switzerland as a reaction against the War and the heightened mood of nationalism.

The "automatic writing" of Dada poetry resulted from allowing the mind to follow illogical and irrational impulses, which, in turn, gave rise to the "absurd" use language. The new group set up the first French Dada performance in Paris on March 27, The group soon became ambivalent towards Dada which had failed to make much of an impact on a seemingly unshockable post-war Parisian audiences.

The couple moved onto Tunisia where they bought a chameleon which they brought back with them to their Parisian home. Soon after, Ernst, who had begun an affair with Gala, moved out of his family's apartment. By October two rival Surrealist groups were vying for supremacy. One was more attuned to the irrational elements of Dadaism; the other, larger, group was led by Breton and carried a stronger mission for political and social change and aligned itself with the ideology of communism and anarchism.

They explained their beliefs - "working for the liberation of man" - in a joint publication Au grand jour "In broad daylight". Then he retired to his studio and resumed his ascetic life, completing the Portrait of Paul Eluard which the writer had been sitting for". My life hanging only by a thread.

She is standing on my eyelids And her hair is in my hair She has the color of my eye She has the body of my hand Poems are the property of their respective owners. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge Paul Eluard.

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