Pierre Unik

French poet and journalist
Pierre Unik
Born(1909-01-05)5 January 1909
Paris, France
Disappeared27 February 1945(1945-02-27) (aged 36)
Pomezní Boudy, Silesia, Czechoslovakia
Occupation(s)Poet, screenwriter, journalist

Pierre Unik (5 January 1909 – 27 February 1945) was a French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist.[1]

Surrealism

Unik published his first Surrealist text in the sixth issue of La Révolution surréaliste.[2] He participated in ten of the twelve known surrealist sex investigations,[3] and claimed to have lost his virginity in a brothel, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen.[4]

Disappearance

Unik was captured in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia in 1940.[2] Escaping in 1945, he never made it back to France, disappearing in Slovakia.[2]

See also

  • List of people who disappeared

References

  1. ^ "Pierre Unik". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  2. ^ a b c Pierre, José, ed. (1992). Investigating sex : surrealist research, 1928-1932. London: Verso. p. 183. ISBN 0-86091-378-3. OCLC 26403753.
  3. ^ Pierre, José, ed. (1992). Investigating sex : surrealist research, 1928-1932. London: Verso. p. 155. ISBN 0-86091-378-3. OCLC 26403753.
  4. ^ Pierre, José, ed. (1992). Investigating sex : surrealist research, 1928-1932. London: Verso. p. 73. ISBN 0-86091-378-3. OCLC 26403753.
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