The French writer Andre Breton initiated which artistic movement in the 1920s, based on Dadaism?
Philippe Soupault Philippe Soupault Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897, Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine – 12 March 1990, Paris) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical "Littérature" together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, "Les Champs magnétiques" (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. In 1927 Soupault, with the help of his then wife Marie-Louise, translated William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" into
Breton literature was killed during the First World War. His posthumously-published collection "Ar en deulin" established his reputation as a war poet. In the 1920s, a movement, in which the linguist and author Roparz Hemon played an important part, arose to introduce the trends of modern literature into Breton. The literary magazine "Gwalarn" provided an outlet for modern authors, such as Jakez Riou and Yves Le Drézen (who published the first long novel in Breton in 1941). The artistic movement "Seiz Breur" included writers. The literary magazine Al Liamm published its first issue in 1946. Numerous authors of modern Breton literature, such