Poet and novelist, a founder of Surrealism with André Breton — the two of them wrote the homage to Musidora, Le Trésor des Jésuites, in 1929 — and later one of the movement's most prominent defectors to Communism.
Partner of · 1926–1928
Cunard and the Surrealist poet Louis Aragon were together for about two years and travelled a good deal. It ended in Venice in 1928, on the holiday during which Cunard first heard Henry Crowder play. Several accounts add that Aragon attempted suicide there; that is reported rather than established, and is attributed rather than asserted here.
With André Breton, Aragon took the black-clad Irma Vep as a Surrealist muse and wrote her into their play Le Trésor des Jésuites (1929). The schoolboys who found the marvelous in a Gaumont serial built a movement partly on its images.
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With André Breton, Aragon took the black-clad Irma Vep as a Surrealist muse and wrote her into their play Le Trésor des Jésuites (1929). The schoolboys who found the marvelous in a Gaumont serial built a movement partly on its images.
Partner of · 1926–1928
Cunard and the Surrealist poet Louis Aragon were together for about two years and travelled a good deal. It ended in Venice in 1928, on the holiday during which Cunard first heard Henry Crowder play. Several accounts add that Aragon attempted suicide there; that is reported rather than established, and is attributed rather than asserted here.