Pierre Unik (5 January 1909 – 27 February 1945) was a
French
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surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist.
Surrealism
Unik published his first Surrealist text in the sixth issue of ''
La Révolution surréaliste
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Shortly after releasing the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'', André Breton ...
''.
He participated in ten of the twelve known surrealist
sex
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investigations, and claimed to have lost his
virginity in a
brothel
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, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen.
Disappearance
Unik was captured in a
prisoner of war camp
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in
Silesia in 1940.
Escaping in 1945, he never made it back to France, disappearing in
Slovakia.
See also
*
List of people who disappeared
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References
1909 births
1940s missing person cases
1945 deaths
20th-century French journalists
20th-century French male writers
20th-century French poets
20th-century French screenwriters
French escapees
French male journalists
French male poets
French male screenwriters
French military personnel killed in World War II
French prisoners of war in World War II
Missing in action of World War II
Writers from Paris
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