Desnos ô Jeunesse

startling images. But others, like Philippe Soupault (1897–1990), who had explored Les Champs magnétiques with Breton in 1922, left the group over doctrinal issues or went on to develop areas of Surrealism best attuned to their own sensibilities. Robert Desnos (1900–45), who had set sail on the ‘vague des rêves’ in Rrose Sélavy (1922), reverted to classical forms and the popular lyric. Both Jacques Prévert (1900– 77) and Raymond Queneau (1903–76) took up the anarchical, satirical side of Surrealism, while