Background
Benjamin Peret was born on July 4, 1899, in Rezé, Pays de la Loire, France.
Surrealist poets Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, and Benjamin Peret signed this photograph, taken in 1932.
Marie-Laure de Noailles, André Breton, Benjamin Péret and others for breakfast in the garden, 1954.
Benjamin Péret and Leonora Carrington.
Photograph by Man Ray, Group of surrealists, Jean-Mario Prassinos, Andre Breton, Henri Parisot, Paul Eluard, Benjamin Peret, Rene Char and Gisele Prassinos, Bibliotheque Ste Genevieve, Fonds Doucet.
Benjamin Peret and Andre Breton with Couple.
(One of the founders of surrealism, Benjamin Péret lived a...)
One of the founders of surrealism, Benjamin Péret lived a life resistant to any aesthetic or political compromise. Though he was the writer most admired within the surrealist group itself, very little of his work has been previously translated. This, the first authorized collection, will assemble his finest work – his novel, Death to Pigs and to the Field of Glory, poems, polemical and critical writings, and unclassifiable works like "Natural History" and "The Round-the-World Calendar of Tolerable Inventions."
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Writings-French-Modernist-Library/dp/0803287216/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(From the Hidden Storehouse represents the enormous range ...)
From the Hidden Storehouse represents the enormous range of Peret's career in generous selections from his five best books, published between 1928 and 1947. This first book-length American translation of his work includes an introduction by the distinguished poet and translator Charles Simic.
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Storehouse-Selected-Poems-Translation/dp/093244010X/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(The Automatic Muse collects together four remarkable nove...)
The Automatic Muse collects together four remarkable novels from the early days of Surrealism - the 1920's, when the group was experimenting with "automatic writing" and other methods of "forcing inspiration."
https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Muse-Surrealist-Novels-Anti-classics/dp/0947757791/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of P...)
This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peret's writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal Radical America, introduced by Franklin Rosemont.
https://www.amazon.com/Menagerie-Revolt-Selected-Benjamin-Peret/dp/0882862995/?tag=2022091-20
2009
Benjamin Peret was born on July 4, 1899, in Rezé, Pays de la Loire, France.
Benjamin Péreе lived with his mother and attended local schools in Rezé. He acquired little education due to his dislike of school and he instead attended the Local Art School from 1912. However, in 1913 he left this school and spent a short period of time in a School of Industrial Design.
Benjamin Peret started his career as a writer in 1921 when he joined the Dada movement and published Le Passager du transtlantique – his first book of poetry. In 1924, he started to work as a co-editor of the journal La Révolution surréaliste. Soon he published his best-known book, “Le Grand jeu” (The Big Game). In 1936 Peret traveled to Spain to fight with the anarchist wing of the Republicans against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Peret went to Mexico in 1940 where he studied pre-Columbian myths and American folklore. In Mexico, he also worked as a teacher and journalist.
After World War II, Peret continued to write and published “Le Deshonneur des poetes” (The Dishonor of Poets) in 1945. He was a contributor of essays to periodicals, including Free Union libres, Horizon, Les tablettes littéraires et artis-tiques, Littérature, View. Peret’s work has been translated into other languages, including English, Italian, Portuguese, German, and Hungarian. He lived in Mexico until the end of 1947 and later returned to Paris. Benjamin Peret died there on 18 September 1959.
(The Automatic Muse collects together four remarkable nove...)
1995(This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of P...)
2009(From the Hidden Storehouse represents the enormous range ...)
1991(One of the founders of surrealism, Benjamin Péret lived a...)
1988Benjamin Peret joined the Communist party in 1926. He and other surrealists were drawn to the politics of Stalin’s rival, the exiled Leon Trotsky. In 1929, Peree moved to Brazil and after two years he was imprisoned and expelled for his political activities.
Benjamin Peret was a member of the French printing union.
Benjamin Peret married Elsie Houston in 1927. The marriage produced a son. However, they divorced and in 1943 Benjamin Peret married Remedios Varo. In 1952 Peret and Varo divorced.