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Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 - 18 September 1959) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 poet and Surrealist.

Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé
Rezé

Rez? is a Communes of France in the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France in northwestern France.It was also called Ratiate in the Middle Ages and Rezay in the High Middle Ages....
 (Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique is a departments of France on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean....
) on 4 July 1899, and enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed. He saw action in the Balkans, and served through the war. Afterwards, he joined the Dada
Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Z?rich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature?poetry, art manifestoes, aesthetics?theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art...
 movement, and in 1921 published Le Passager du transtlantique his first book of poetry. He left the Dada movement following André Breton
André Breton

Andr? Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism....
 and joined Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
.

He worked with and influenced other poets such as Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomacy, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature....
. In the fall of 1924 he was the co-editor of the journal La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste

La R?volution surr?aliste was a publication by Surrealism in Paris. Twelve issues were published between 1924 and 1929.Shortly after releasing the first Surrealist Manifesto, Andr? Breton published the inaugural issue of La R?volution surr?aliste on December 1, 1924....
, becoming chief editor in 1925.






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Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 - 18 September 1959) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 poet and Surrealist.

Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé
Rezé

Rez? is a Communes of France in the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France in northwestern France.It was also called Ratiate in the Middle Ages and Rezay in the High Middle Ages....
 (Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique is a departments of France on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean....
) on 4 July 1899, and enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed. He saw action in the Balkans, and served through the war. Afterwards, he joined the Dada
Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Z?rich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature?poetry, art manifestoes, aesthetics?theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art...
 movement, and in 1921 published Le Passager du transtlantique his first book of poetry. He left the Dada movement following André Breton
André Breton

Andr? Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism....
 and joined Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
.

He worked with and influenced other poets such as Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomacy, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature....
. In the fall of 1924 he was the co-editor of the journal La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste

La R?volution surr?aliste was a publication by Surrealism in Paris. Twelve issues were published between 1924 and 1929.Shortly after releasing the first Surrealist Manifesto, Andr? Breton published the inaugural issue of La R?volution surr?aliste on December 1, 1924....
, becoming chief editor in 1925. In 1928, before living in Brazil
Brazil

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 (1929-1932), with his wife Elsie Houston
Elsie Houston

Elsie Houston was a Brazilian singer.Elsie Houston was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1902. She was the descendent of confederados, southern plantation owners that had come to Brazil after the American Civil War....
, he published Le Grand Jeu. Buffetted by the winds of politics, he fought in the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
, met Nathalia Sedova, Trotsky's widow in Mexico City (1942-1948), and returned to France and then spent the remainder of his life in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. He was married to the Spanish artist Remedios Varo
Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo Uranga was a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist Painting. She was born Mar?a de los Remedios Varo Uranga in Angl?s, Girona, Spain in 1908....
 and they escaped Europe together with the help of the American based Emergency Rescue Committee. Barred from immigration to the United States because of Péret's political history they instead immigrated to Mexico where they lived together in Mexico City until their divorce in 1947.

Among Péret's other published works are the surrealist novel Mort aux vaches et au champ d'honneur (Death to the Pigs and the Field of Battle) (1922-23); La Brebis galante (The Elegant Ewe) (1924-49); Les Couilles enragees (Mad Balls) (1928); and L'Histoire naturelle (Natural History) (1958); as well as the poetry collections De derriere les faggots (From the Hidden Storehouse) (1934); Je ne mange pas de ce pain-la (I Won't Stoop to That) (1936); and Je Sublime (1936).

He died on 18 September 1959 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
.

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