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Paul
Eluard: Pen-name for Eugène Grindel.
He
was born in St Denis (1895), and he died in Sarandon-le-Pont
(1952).
At a very young age he was infected by tuberculosis, as a
result of which he interrupted his studies in order to be
hospitalised in Switzerland.
He became a member of the Dadaism movement group and later
on he
joined the movement of Surrealism.
In 1926 he acceded to the French Communist Party, he withdrew
from it in 1933, and rejoined it again in 1942. |
In
1938 a severance between Andre Breton and himself led to his breaking
away from the Surrealism movement.
His
contribution to the French Writers' Resistence against the Germans
was very important.
After
the liberation he traveled at several countries (he visited Greece
in 1946, and in 1948, at a period during which he went to Grammos*
and spent some time by the Democratic Army**).
He
participted in many international meetings for world peace.
*) Greek mountain
**) The lighting troops of EAM (National Liberation Front)
Nena Venetsanou - Yannis Ritsos - Theodorakis
on the Eluard-Songs and Epitaphios - Version
française - Deutshce Fassung
- Index
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