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Philippe Soupault

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born

August 02, 1897

died

March 12, 1990

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Politics

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Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault founded the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris 1919, which, for many, dates the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, Les champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. After imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States but subsequently returned to France. His works include such fat volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents [compass card] (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr...more

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Books by Philippe Soupault

Average rating: 4.00 · 251 ratings · 33 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Last Nights of Paris by Philippe Soupault, William Carlos Williams (Translator) 377 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	I'm Lying: Selected Translations by Philippe Soupault, Paulette Schmidt (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 400 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Where the Four Winds Blow by Philippe Soupault, Pat Nolan (Translator) 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Westwego by Philippe Soupault, Beatrice Mousli (Translator) 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Age of Assassins 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1945	My rating:
	Georgia 400 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	grand homme. 300 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	Voyage D'horace Pirouelle 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Ecrits Sur La Peinture 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Rose des vents; 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: