French poet, dramatist, and film director. A leading figure in European modernism, he worked with the artist
Picasso, the choreographer
Diaghilev, and the composer
Stravinsky. He produced many volumes of poetry, ballets such as
Le Boeuf sur le toit/The Ox on the Roof (1920), plays like
Orphée/Orpheus (1926), and a mature novel of bourgeois French life,
Les Enfants Terribles (1929), which he filmed in 1948.
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