LE LIVRE OUVERT 1938-1944

Paul Eluard (December 14, 1895 - November 18 1952), a pseudonym for Eugene Grindel, French poet. After a happy childhood, was affected by tuberculosis which forced him to interrupt their studies. In Switzerland, in the sanatorium in Davos met with the Gala who married in 1917 and began writing his first poems. In 1918, Jean Paulhan it discovers and assists throughout his life. He submitted to André Breton and Louis Aragon to keep his entire life to a very deep but also conflicting (always about communism). Entered the Dadaist group in Toulon. His contribution to Dada starts before his arrival in Paris. As Tristan Tzara was still in Zurich, published jointly 4 posters, which spread through the city to 1,000 copies each other. After a marital crisis, begins a world tour that ends in 1924. His poems then (L'Amour poetry) are the testimony of a difficult time: TB relapse and separation of Gala, which becomes the Egeria of Salvador Dalí during a holiday common to the two couples in the house in Dali Cadaques, transformed today into a museum. In 1926, Capitale publishes the Douleur it enshrines as a poet of the first line. In 1933 there was a "crisis" with their exclusion from the French Communist party member who was in 1926, returning to the party illegal in 1943, 10 years after World War II in full. In 1934, she married nush, a model of Man Ray and Pablo Picasso, "the mascot, the girl of the Surrealists." Political disagreements as the group left the surreal 1938. During the Second World War was mobilized and developed its activity in the resistance. Decides, in particular, struggle with words. In his poem Liberté (1942) comes the genius: a poem of love transforms light and sublime in cry of protest and commitment that obliges him to go into hiding. His speech addressed since then, more radical, militant themes and committed to that extreme brevity of his formal style gives them a greater impact. After the premature death of nush, finds his latest love, Dominique, and he dedicates his book LE PHENIX, transition between the horror of the long decline of nush and rebirth for the love of Dominique, in which the themes of death, of the doubt, the desperation of opponents head-on with life, love, sensuality and meat. He died in 1952 as a result of a heart attack, and is buried at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. He began his career in the avant-garde of the 20s, accompanied by Andr&am