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Biographies (3)

474 words, approx. 2 pages
The French writer André Breton (1896-1966) was the leader of the surrealist movement, which was the most important force in French poetry in the 1920s and 1930s.André Breton was born in ... Read more
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André Breton, a twentieth-century French poet and essayist, also a novelist and founder and theoretician of the surrealist movement, was born in Tinchebray, Normandy, on 19 February 1896, died ... Read more
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André Breton is widely known as the founder and prominent figure of the Surrealist movement in France. His manifestos and essays, including the extended novelistic essay Nadja (1928; translated... Read more