However, Éluard practiced automatic writing very litte, but it was one of Breton's favorite subjects. L'amoureuseįreud's theory of the unconscious influenced deeply avant-garde writers especially the technique of automatic writing was experimented as a method to liberate subconscious from the straitjacket of reason. Legally Éluard and Gala were divorced in 1932. The journey was later connected with the loss of his wife Gala to the surrealist artist Salvador Dali, although their affair started much later. After seven months he appeared and explained that he had been on a journey from Marseilles to Tahiti, Indonesia, and Ceylon. Rumours of his death were widely circulated and finally accepted as true.
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With the painter Max Ernst, who had moved to Paris in 1922, Éluard worked on aĬycle entitled Les Malheurs des Immortels, a series of pictures made of scraps of illustrations cut out from old books. Éluard's early statement in verse of surrealist theories was LES NÉCESSITÉS DE LA He was briefly involved with the Dada movement, whichĭeclined in the 1920s as many of its proponents joined the Like André Breton, Aragon, Péret, Soupault and other intellectuals, Éluard emerged from the warĭisgusted with commonly accepted values of the bourgeois society. Gala inspired several of Éluard's poems published in CAPITALE DE LA DOULEUR (1926), which established his reputation as a poet. During a leave from the service in 1917, he married a Russian woman, Helena Diakonova, known as Gala, whom he had met in Clavadel. His first noteworthy volume of poetry was LE DEVOIR EL L'INQUIÉTUDE (1917). When he returned to France, he joined the army and was badly injured by gas. Éluard became interested in poetry in his youth in Clavadel, a Swiss sanatorium, where he was sent for treatment of tuberculosis. He was born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel in Saint-Denis, Paris, the son of a bookkeeper, whose wife helped out with the household bills by dressmaking. Paul Éluard came from a lower-middle-class background. Many of his works reflect the major events of the century, such as the World Wars, the Resistance against the Nazis, and the political and social ideals of the 20th-century. Éluard rejected later Surrealism and joined the French Communist Party. Paul Éluard (1895-1952) - pseudonym of Eugène Grindelįrench poet, a founder of Surrealism with Louis Aragon and André Breton among others, one of the important lyrical poets of the 20th century. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z