Pierre Unik Explained

Pierre Unik
Birth Date:5 January 1909
Birth Place:Paris, France
Disappeared Place:Pomezní Boudy, Silesia, Czechoslovakia
Occupation:Poet, screenwriter, journalist

Pierre Unik (5 January 1909 – 27 February 1945) was a French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist.[1]

Surrealism

Unik published his first Surrealist text in the sixth issue of La Révolution surréaliste.[2] He participated in ten of the twelve known surrealist sex investigations,[3] and claimed to have lost his virginity in a brothel, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen.[4]

Disappearance

Unik was captured in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia in 1940. Escaping in 1945, he never made it back to France, disappearing in Slovakia.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Pierre Unik. 2020-06-23. Oxford Reference. en.
  2. Book: Investigating sex : surrealist research, 1928-1932. 1992. Verso. Pierre, José . 0-86091-378-3. London. 183. 26403753.
  3. Book: Investigating sex : surrealist research, 1928-1932. 1992. Verso. Pierre, José . 0-86091-378-3. London. 155. 26403753.
  4. Book: Investigating sex : surrealist research, 1928-1932. 1992. Verso. Pierre, José . 0-86091-378-3. London. 73. 26403753.