Paul Nougé

Paul Nougé was born in Brussels on 13 February 1895 and was a biochemist in a medical laboratory from 1919 to 1953. Among the founders of the Belgian Communist Party in 1921, he launched in 1924 the review Correspondance, from which the Brussels surrealist group emerged, with Goemans, Magritte and Mesens; he rejected the automatic writing advocated by Breton. He gave their titles to several of Magritte's paintings, wrote two songs for Barbara and founded in 1954 a last review with Marcel Mariën. He died in Ixelles on 6 November 1967.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryL'Expérience continuePaul Nougé · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature