Poetry
The collection "Poetry" by Paul Eluard, which we bring to the attention of readers, does not have the ambition to fill the gaps left by the previous editions, but reflects to a large extent the biases of translation and is rather a "personal anthology". Eluard is a poetic universe, an emanation of poetry. He seems to have taken the best of the poetics of surrealism and refracted it through his unique sensibility to create poems that revolutionized 20th century European poetry.
Paul Eluard
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. He adhered to Dadaism and became one of the pillars of Surrealism by opening the way to artistic action politically committed to the Communist Party. During World War II, he was the author of several poems against Nazism that circulated clandestinely. He became known worldwide as The Poet of Freedom and is considered the most gifted of French surrealist poets.
