He was born with the century and died in 1945 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. He was one of the most important poets of the Surrealist movement, a Breton friend for a time and considered by him as one of the group's "prophets". Parallel to his poetic work -or, perhaps, as the most secret part of it-, Desnos developed an important radio career, worked in an advertising agency inventing slogans that would make listeners dream, created some sketches for the Fantomas series and He worked assiduously as a journalist.