Pierre de Massot

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Pierre de Massot (born April 10, 1900 in Lyon , † January 3, 1969 in Paris ) was a French writer of Dadaism and Surrealism .

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Massot was a son of Comte Adolphe de Massot de Lafond and his wife Marie de Saint-Jean. Three of his brothers, Règis, Bernard and Henri, died in the First World War .

Massot attended the Lycée Saint-Marc of the Jesuit Order in his hometown. Then he went to Paris to study there. There he made the acquaintance of Francis Picabia , through whose support he soon met the publisher Pierre Seghers (1906–1987). He was also friends with Jean Cocteau , Marcel Duchamp , André Gide , Max Jacob , Tristan Tzara and many others.

On July 6, 1923, Tzara had invited to the soirée “Cœur à Barbe” in the Théâtre Michel ( 8th arrondissement ). A group led by André Breton violently disrupted this event, during which Massot's arm was broken and the police had to intervene. This marked the break between Dadaists and Surrealists. Nevertheless, two years later, Massot was one of the signatories of Breton's La révolution d'abord manifesto .

In 1936 Massot joined the Parti communiste français (PCF) and remained a member there until 1956. During the German occupation , he played a key role in hiding André Suarès and, after the liberation of Paris, worked together in the magazine Nouvelle Revue Française .

During the uprising in Hungary he distanced himself from the PCF, but continued to stand up for Léon Blum and his front populaire . As an opponent of the French doctrine and the Algerian war , Massot was one of the signatories of the manifesto of the 121st in September 1960 .

Pierre de Massot died in abject poverty on January 3, 1969 in Paris, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

  • De Mallarmé à 391 . Saint-Raphaël 1922.
  • Saint-Just ou divin bourreau . Paris 1925.
  • Portrait d'un bull-dog or prolégomène à une critique de la sensibilité . Paris 1926 (illustrated by Berenice Abbott )
  • Mon corpse. Ce doux-demon . PAB, Alès 1959 (with a foreword by André Gide )
  • Francis Picabia . Seghers, Paris 1966.
  • André Breton ou le septembriseur . Losfeld, Paris 1967.
  • Mystère des maux. Poemes . Martinet, Paris 1961.
  • Marcel Duchamp . L'Échoppe, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-84068-264-6 (EA Paris 1965)

literature

  • Alain Biron, René Passeron: Dictionnaire général du surréalisme . PUF, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-13-037-280-5 .
  • Gérard Pfister: Étude sur Pierre de Massot (1900-1969) . Dissertation, University of Paris IV 1975.
  • Michel Sanouillet: Dada à Paris . CNRS, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-271-06337-X , p. 333.
  • Family tree of Pierre de Massots. In: Revue historique, archéologique, littéraire et pittoresque de Vivarais , Vol. 12 (1904), p. 486.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Desnos , Paul Éluard , Benjamin Péret a . a.
  2. ^ Excerpt from La Révolution Surréaliste of October 5, 1925, ISSN  0398-3501

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personal data
SURNAME Massot, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer of Dadaism and Surrealism
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1969
Place of death Paris