- Gisèle Prassinos
Gisèle Prassinos (Born 1920) is a French
writer associated with thesurrealist movement.She was born in
Istanbul , Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived initially inNanterre . Her brotherMario Prassinos is an artist and illustrator.Her writing was discovered by
André Breton in 1934, when she was just fourteen, and published in the French surrealist magazineMinotaure and the Belgian periodical Documents 34. Her first book, "La Sauterelle arthritique" (The Arthritic Grasshopper) was published in 1935 with a preface byPaul Eluard and a photograph byMan Ray .Marianne van Hirtum observed that the surrealists of the time recognised these early writings as a "veritable illustration of automatic language "par excellence".After World War II Prassinos's association with organised surrealism was limited, but she has continued to publish widely.
Bibliography
(incomplete)
* "La Sauterelle Arthritique" (GLM, 1935)
* "Quand le Bruit Travaille" (GLM, 1936)
* "La Revanche" (GLM, 1939)
* "Sondue" (GLM, 1939)
* "Le Temps n'est rien" (Plon, 1958)
* "La Voyageuse" (Plon, 1959)
* "La Gonfidente" (Grasset, 1962)
* "Le Visage Effleuré de Peine" (Grasset, 1964)
* "Le Grand Repas" (Grasset, 1966)
* "Les Mots Endormis" (Flammarion, 1967)
* "La Vie la Voix" - Poésie (Flammarion, 1971)
* "Le Verrou" (Flammarion, 1987)
* "La Table de Famille" (Flammarion, 1993)References
* "Surrealist Women - An International Anthology" (1998) - by
Penelope Rosemont
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