(Chaville, 1897-Paris, 1990) French writer. He was, along with A. Breton, the founder of the surrealist movement. In 1917 he published his first verses in the Sic magazine and his first book (Aquarius). In 1919 he wrote, in collaboration with A. Breton, The magnetic fields, the first surrealist literary text. His poetic works include Rosa de los vientos (1920), Westwejo (1922), Poesías completas (1917-1937), Odas (1945), Canciones (1949) and Poemas y poesías 1917-1973 (1973). He is also the author of novels (The Durandeau Brothers, 1924; The Last Nights of Paris, 1928; The Great Man, 1929; The Dying, 1934; The Journey of Horace Pizoulle, 1983), of plays (The Triumph of Joanna, 1956; The Emperor's Nightingale, 1957), autobiographical and testimonial texts (The Time of the Assassins, 1945; Lost Profiles, 1963; Memories of Oblivion, 1981) and essays on Apollinaire (1928), Lautréamont (1929), Baudelaire (1931 ) and Musset (1957).