Paul Eluard
ABOUT PAUL ELUARD
Twentieth-century French poet known for Le temps deborde, Capitale de la douleur, and other works. He is remembered as a founder of literary surrealism.
He was sent to a Swiss sanatorium at age sixteen after he became ill from tuberculosis.
He joined the French Communist Party and voiced his support for Joseph Stalin . These actions resulted in his alienation from the surrealist movement.
He was married three times: first, to Elena Ivanovna Diakonova (who eventually left him for Salvador Dali ); next, to a model and surrealist icon named Nusch (Maria Bens); and finally, to Dominique Laure.
He collaborated with German artist Max Ernst . Ernst later lived in a sexual arrangement with Eluard and Elena Ivanovna Diakonova.
