Career
Before his association with André Breton and the Surrealists, Limbour co-edited, along with Roger Vitrac and René Crevel, the avant-garde review Aventure (1921-1922). Later, he contributed to Georges Bataille"s journal Documents (1929-1930), and, with a number of other dissident ex-surrealists, signed the anti-Breton pamphlet Un Cadavre. Among Limbour"s writings translated into English are L"Enfant polaire (The Polar Child) (1922), Glass Eyes (1924) and The Panorama (1935).
Other works of note include a prose collection L"Illustre cheval blanc and a study of the painter André Masson.
After World World War II, Limbour taught in Egypt and Poland, and also made an extensive trip to Cuba in 1967-1968. He died in a swimming accident in 1970.