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Night Thoughts - The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne (Hardcover)
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Night Thoughts - The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne (Hardcover)
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The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his
early poems. At eighteen he drafted the manifesto of the English
Surrealist Group and at nineteen he published what remains an
authoritative account of the international movement. He translated
for Salvador Dali and crossed swords with Andre Breton; the 1936
International Surrealist Exhibition in London was largely his
brainchild. During the war he toured as an actor, embraced
religious existentialism and became, in the words of John Lehmann,
'the most important philosophic poet of our time'. After the war he
wrote for radio, painted, cooked, and went mad. The journals he
kept during his periods of mental instability are masterpieces of
the bizarre. Gascoyne found unexpected happiness in late middle
age, emerging as an elder statesman of British poetry. Robert
Fraser contends that, through all the twists and turns of his
variegated existence, Gascoyne strove for candour and truth of
self-expression. With equivalent candour this pioneering biography
describes his creative work and multifarious translations, his
inconvenient addictions, his tormented private life, and his many
friendships in England and in France.
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