André Breton is the big Daddy of Surrealism. We can't talk about the movement without talking about him because he is the writer who officially got the movement going. It would be like talking abo...

Robert Desnos was an important member of the Surrealist group in Paris until the late 1920s, when he was kicked out by André Breton. Desnos was critical of Breton's ideas, especially his political...

Paul Éluard met André Breton, Phillipe Soupault, and Louis Aragon soon after World War I ended. They were impressed by his poetry, and he was inducted into the Surrealist group that they were for...

Philippe Soupalt, along with André Breton, was one of the founding fathers of the Surrealist movement in Paris. In 1919 he began publishing the journal Littérature along with Breton and Louis Ara...

Louis Aragon was a buddy of André Breton who also played a big part in founding the Surrealist movement in the mid-1920s. Before that, he was involved with Dada. He was also (like a bunch of these...