Maxime Moses Alexandre (1899–1976) was a French poet associated with Surrealism.
Maxime Alexandre was born into a liberal Jewish family inWolfisheim. There his first language wasGerman, although his family moved toLausanne duringWorld War I. There he learntFrench, and was introduced toRomain Rolland byRené Schickelé.[1]
Alexandre was active in the surrealist movement from its inception in 1924 until 1929, when he followedLouis Aragon out of the group. He contributed to bothLa Révolution surréaliste andLe Surréalisme au service de la révolution.[2] ACommunist, he also worked for theFrench Communist Party newspaperL'Humanité. He was imprisoned whenWorld War II started.[1]
In 1949 Alexandre converted toRoman Catholicism, though he later left the church in reaction to what he felt was the church'santi-Semitism.[1]
Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris
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