''Capitale de la douleur'' (''Capital of Pain'') is a book of poems by French
surrealist
Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ...
poet
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard (), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.
In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal ...
. The collection was first published in
1926
Events January
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* January 8
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Table of contents
* Répétitions
* Mourir de ne pas mourir
* Les petits justes
* Nouveaux poèmes.
Publication
*Paris, Nouvelle revue française
926
Year 926 ( CMXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – The Italian nobles turn against King Rudolph II of Burgundy and request that ...
Influence
In 1965,
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Franà ...
adapted several of the concepts in Éluard's poetry in his film ''
Alphaville'' and quoted from it throughout. The main character can also be seen to be reading the book.
See also
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''Le Monde'' 100 Books of the Century
1926 books
French poetry collections
20th-century French literature
Works published under a pseudonym
Poetry by Paul Éluard
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