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Name
  
Philippe Soupault

Role
  
Writer

Nominations
  
Prix Goncourt


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Died
  
March 12, 1990, Paris, France

Books
  
Les Champs Magnetiques, Last Nights of Paris, The Automatic Message, Le Bon Apotre, Where the Four Winds Blow

Similar People
  
Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos

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Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897, Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine – 12 March 1990, Paris) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, Les champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. In 1927 Soupault, with the help of his wife Marie-Louise, translated William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience into French. The next year, Soupault authored a monograph on Blake, arguing the poet was a "genius" whose work anticipated the Surrealist movement in literature. He directed Radio Tunis from 1937 to 1940, when he was arrested by the pro-Vichy regime. He fled successfully to Algiers.

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After imprisonment by the Nazis during World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States, teaching at Swarthmore College but returned subsequently to France in October 1945. His works include such large volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents [compass card] (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr. Last Nights of Paris, 1929).

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In 1957 he wrote the libretto for Germaine Tailleferre's opera La Petite Sirène, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Little Mermaid". The work was broadcast by French Radio National in 1959.

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In 1990, the year Soupault died, Serbian rock band Bjesovi recorded their version of his poem Georgia in Serbian.

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Soupault's short story "Death of Nick Carter" was translated by Robin Walz in 2007, and published in issue 24 of the McSweeney's Quarterly.

In 2016, City Lights published a book of his essays entitled Lost Profiles : Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism as translated by Alan Bernheimer.

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Works

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  • Aquarium (1917)
  • Rose des vents (1919)
  • Les Champs magnétiques, (1919, in association with A. Breton)
  • L’Invitation au suicide (1921)
  • Westwego (1922)
  • Le Bon Apôtre (1923, novel)
  • Les Frères Durandeau (1924, novel)
  • Georgia (1926)
  • Le Nègre (1927, novel)
  • Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928, novel).
  • Le Grand Homme (1929, novel)
  • Les Moribonds (1934, autobiographical novel)
  • Il y a un océan (1936)
  • Odes à Londres bombardée (1944)
  • Le Temps des assassins (1945, sequel of autobiography)
  • Odes (1946)
  • L’Arme secrète (1946)
  • Message de l'île déserte (1947)
  • Chansons (1949)
  • Sans phrases (1953)
  • Arc-en-ciel (1979)
  • Mémoires de l’oubli (1981, autobiography)
  • Poèmes retrouvés (1982)
  • Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. Translated from the French by Alan Bernheimer (City Lights Publishers), 2016 ISBN 9780872867277
  • References

    Philippe Soupault Wikipedia


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