In 1926 he composed "The Night of Loveless Nights", a lyric poem dealing with solitude curiously written in classic quatrains, which makes it more like Baudelaire than Breton. It was illustrated by his close friend and fellow surrealist Georges Malkine. Desnos fell in love with Yvonne George, a singer whose obsessed fans made his love impossible. He wrote several poems for her, as well as the erotic surrealist novel "La liberté ou l'amour!" (1927). Critic Ray Keenoy describes "La liberté ou l'amour!" as "literary and lyrical in its outpourings of sexual delirium".