Robert Desnos 1900-1945
biographies/critical works
The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos Mary Ann Caws (University of Massachusetts Press, 1977)
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everday Life Katharine Conley (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
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selected works in translation
The Circle and the Star translated by Todd Sanders (Air and Nothingness Press, 2000)
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The Secret Book For Youki translated by Todd Sanders (Air and Nothingness Press, 2001)
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Calixto translated by Todd Sanders (Air and Nothingness Press, 2004)
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Calixto CD translated by Todd Sanders (Air and Nothingness Press, 2004)
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Mythmaking translated by Todd Sanders and Oonagh Taeger (Air and Nothingness Press, 2006)
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22 Poems translated by Michael Benedikt (Kayak, 1971)
The Voice translated by William Kulik (Mushinsha, 1971)
selected poems in The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos translated by Mary Ann Caws (University of Massachusetts Press, 1977)
selected poems in The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry edited by Paul Auster (Vintage, 1982)
The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos translated by William Kulik and Carolyn Forche (Ecco, 1991)
Liberty or Love! translated by Terry Hale (Atlas, 1993)
Mourning for Mourning in The Automatic Muse translated by Terry Hale and Iain White (Atlas 1994)
I Looked At Myself in the Fountain in The Myth of the World edited by Michael Richardson (Dedalus 1994)
works by desnos published in france (books)
Deuil pour deuil (Kra, 1924)
C'est les bottes de sept lieues cette phrase 'Je me vois' (Galerie Simon, 1926)
La Liberte' ou L'amour! (Kra, 1927)
Corps et biens (NRF, 1930)
Le sans cou Privately printed(1934)
Fortunes (Gallimard, 1942)
Le Vin est tire' (Gallimard, 1943)
Etat de veille (Gallimard, 1947)
Le Bain avec Andromede (Flore, 1944)
Contre'e (Robert Godet, 1944 reprinted with Calixto, Gallimard, 1962)
Trente chante-fables pour les enfants sages (Librarie Grund, 1944)
Felix Labisse (Sequana, Les peintres d'imagination, 1945)
La Place de l'e'toile (antipoe'me) (Rodez, 1945)
Choix de poemes (Ed. Minuit, 1946)
Nouvelle ine'dites. Rue de la Gaite'. Voyage en Bourgogne. Pre'cis de cuisine pour les jours heureux (Les Treize Epis, 1947)
Les Trois Solitaires. Longtemps apre's hier. Poe'mes pour Marie. A la Hollande. Mon tombeau (Les Treize Epis, 1947)
Oeuvres posthumes (Les Treize Epis, 1947)
Chantefables et chantefleurs (Grund, 1952)
De l'e'rotisme conside're' dans ses manifestations e'crites et du point de vue de l'esprit moderne (Cercle des Arts, 1953)
La Papesse du diable (Eric Losfeld, 1966)
Domaine public (Gallimard, 1953)
Mines de rien (Broder, 1960)
Calixto, suivi de Contre'e (Gallimard, 1962)
La Liberte' ou L'amour! reprinted with Deuil pour deuil (Gallimard, 1962)
Cinema (Gallimard, 1966)
Corps et biens (Gallimard collection "Poe'sie", 1968)
Fortunes (Gallimard collection "Poe'sie", 1969)
Destine'e arbitraire (Gallimard collection "Poe'sie", 1975)
Le Bois D'Amour (Editions Des Cendres, 1995)
english texts
A Shooting Star
Cascade
Dove in the Arch
Ebony Life
Epitaph
Fairy Tale
Idee Fixe
If You Only Knew
I Have Dreamed of You So Much
I Looked At Myself in the Fountain
Liberty or Love! - excerpts
Long Long Ago
Lying Down
Never Anyone But You
No, Love is Not Dead
Of the Flower of Love and the Wandering Horses
Sky Song
Sleep Spaces
Sorrows of Love
The Landscape
The Ring of Stars
The Voice of Robert Desnos
Under Cover of Night
With Heart of Oak
You Take the First Street
other items of interest
Išve Dreamed of You So Much
More information on this short docu-drama loosely based on one of the last letters written by Desnos can be found at: ANM Films.
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