Capitale de la douleur by Paul Eluard

Paul ü¾Ž–Œ¼luard (1895-1952) was one of the founders of the Surrealist movement and one of the foremost lyric poets of the 20th century. His poetry is concerned with sexual desire and the desire for social change. He was a close associate of Surrealist poets Andrü¾Ž–”¼ Breton, Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault between the wars. Experiments with new verbal techniques, theories on the relation between dream and reality, and the free expression of thought processes produced Capitale de la douleur (Capital of Sorrow, 1926), his first important work, which was followed by La Rose publique (The Public Rose, 1934) and Les Yeux fertiles (The Fertile Eyes, 1936), among the most significant books of poetry produced by the Surrealist movement. He also explored the progress of mental disorders in L'Immaculü¾Ž–”¼e Conception (with Andrü¾Ž–”¼ Breton, 1930). He abandoned much of his Surrealist practice after the Spanish Civil War. He joined the Communist Party during the war and worked actively in the Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris as well as writing poetry to inspire the French people. Caught between the horrors of Stalinism and post-war, right-wing anti-communism, his writing sustains an insistent vision of poetry as a multi-faceted weapon against injustice and oppression. For ü¾Ž–Œ¼luard, poetry is a way of infiltrating the reader with greater emotional awareness of the social problems of the modern world. Paul ü¾Ž–Œ¼luard was the pseudonym of Eugü¾Ž†”¼ne Grindel. He had three great loves in his life: Gaia (Helena Daikonova) whom he met at the age of 16 in a Swiss sanatorium where they were being treated for TB, and who later left him for Salvador Dalü¾˜¶”¼; the Surrealist associate Nusch (Maria Benz); and Dominique Lemort, whom he married in 1951. Unbroken Poetry II, published posthumously in 1953, pays tribute to Dominique ü¾Ž–Œ¼luard, with whom Paul spent the last years of his life. It traces the internal dialogues of a passionate relationship as well as of his continuing re-evaluation of the poetic project it-self. It centres on political commitment and places it at the heart of the lovers' desire.

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ISBN 13	9782070349623
ISBN 10	2070349624
Title	Capitale de la douleur
Author	Paul Eluard
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Gallimard
Year published	2008-02-25
Number of pages	227
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