Monny de Boully

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Monny de Boully
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BornSolomon Buli
(1904-09-27)27 September 1904
Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
Died29 March 1968(1968-03-29) (aged 63)
Paris, France
OccupationWriter
Period20th century
GenrePoetry
Literary movement Surrealism

Monny de Boully (1904 in Belgrade - 1968 in Paris in a taxi) was a Franco-Serbian writer and poet.

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Surrealist poet

Born into a family of Serbian Sephardic bankers, as Solomon Buli, de Boully was educated in Belgrade. He participated in the research of the Yugoslav avant-gardes.

He arrived in Paris in 1925, where he met André Breton, Louis Aragon and Benjamin Péret. He published one text in the publication La Révolution surréaliste . In 1928, he created with Arthur Adamov and Claude Sernet  [ fr ] the magazine Discontinuité  [ fr ] which will have only one issue and participated in issues two and three of the Grand Jeu  [ fr ] magazine.

Paulette Grobermann (1903-1995), wife of Armand Lanzmann (both parents of Claude Lanzmann and Jacques Lanzmann), left her husband for the love of Monny de Boully. [1]

In 1943, Jean Rousselot  [ fr ] saved Monny de Boully and his wife Paulette, arrested by the Gestapo.

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References

  1. Marianne Payot: "Lanzmann: mémoire vive", in L'Express #3012, 26 March to 1 April 2009, p. 106.