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Jean-Pierre Duprey

Born

in Rouen, France

January 01, 1930

Died

October 02, 1959

Influences

surrealism

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The too-short life of poet, painter, and sculptor Jean-Pierre Duprey ended tragically with suicide in 1959. In cahoots with Breton and other Surrealists, he kept a distance too, writing prose and verse poems of extraordinarily vivid relations.

Perhaps his greatest creative act, quietly pissing on the eternal flame under the Arc de Triomphe, proved to be his undoing. Beaten in jail for the act, he returned home, set his affairs in order then hanged himself. Luckily, his written record survives: "Me, I mysterize myself, I mysterize myself," he wrote. "Explaining myself to the forest, to the intaglioed trees, to the empty birds, howling with the skin of the wolf whose teeth I dream..." ...more

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Jean-Pierre Duprey’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 93 ratings · 9 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Myth of the World: Surrealism 2 by Michael Richardson (Editor, Afterword, Translator), André Breton (Contributor), René Magritte (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos. 33 poetas suicidas. by Luis la Hoz (Prólogo y Selección), Max Silva Tuesta (Selección), Georg Trakl (Selección) 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Καταραμένοι Γάλλοι Ποιητές by Charles Baudelaire, Charles Cros, Jules Laforgue 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	4X1: Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey & Habib Tengour by Pierre Joris (Editor), Jean-Pierre Duprey (Contributor), Rainer Maria Rilke (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Œuvres Complètes by Jean-Pierre Duprey, François Di Dio (Scientific Editor), André Breton (Preface) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Bosque Sacrílego by Jean-Pierre Duprey, André Breton (Preface), Alfonso Español (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La poesia surrealista francese by Benjamin Péret (Editor and contributor), Arturo Schwarz (Translator, foreword and contrib), Roberto Sanesi (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un bruit de baiser ferme le monde poèmes inédits 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Fin Et La Maniere 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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