Pierre Unik
Pierre Unik (5 January 1909 – 27 February 1945) was a French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist.
Pierre Unik
- Name
- Pierre Unik
- Born
- 5 January 1909
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Poet, screenwriter, journalist
- Died
- 1945 · Pomezní Boudy.
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Pierre Unik (5 January 1909 – 27 February 1945) was a French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist.
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• Name — Pierre Unik • Born — 5 January 1909 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Disappeared Date — 1945 02 27 • Disappeared Place — Pomezní Boudy, Silesia, Czechoslovakia • Occupation — Poet, screenwriter, journalist
Surrealism
Surrealism
Unik published his first Surrealist text in the sixth issue of La Révolution surréaliste. He participated in ten of the twelve known surrealist sex investigations, and claimed to have lost his virginity in a brothel, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen.
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Disappearance
Unik was captured in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia in 1940. Escaping in 1945, he never made it back to France, disappearing in Slovakia.
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1909
Pierre Unik born at Paris.
1945
Pierre Unik died at Pomezní Boudy.
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- 1.Acte de naissance n°86 avec mention du décès. Archives de Paris. 16/31.
- 2.Nicole Racine, notice , in Le Maitron.
- 3.1935 La culture a sa maison, L'Humanité, 3 décembre 2005.
- 4.Pierre Unik (1909-1945). Librairie Emmanuel Hutin. 2009.
- 5.Pierre Unik, Chant d'exil (biographie par Georges Sadoul, poème-préface de Paul Eluard). In: Littératures 20,1973.
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- . Biographie & description de sa bibliothèque. Paris, Librairie-galerie Emmanuel Hutin, 2009, 136 p.
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