Subseries BXB/1/1/ELP - Paul Éluard

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BXB/1/1/ELP

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Paul Éluard

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  • 1996 (Creation)

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(1895-1952)

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Paul Éluard’s poetry is concerned with sexual desire and the desire for social change. A central participant in Dada and in the Surrealist movement, Éluard joined the French Communist Party to work actively in the Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. Caught between the horrors of Stalinism and post-war, right-wing anti-communism, his writing sustains an insistent vision of poetry as a multi-faceted weapon against injustice and oppression. For Éluard, poetry is a way of infiltrating the reader with greater emotional awareness of the relational and social problems of the modern world.

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Consists of letters and proofs relating to the translated work of Paul Éluard.

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BXB/2/7/124

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