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Gisèle Prassinos

Born

in Constantinople, Turkey

February 26, 1920

Died

November 15, 2015

Genre

Fiction, Fantasy, Poetry

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Gisèle Prassinos (born 1920) is a French writer of Greek and Italian origin, associated with the surrealist movement.

She was born in Constantinople, Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived in Paris. Her brother Mario Prassinos (1916 - 1985) was a noted artist and designer.

Her writing was discovered by André Breton in 1934, when she was just fourteen, and published in the French surrealist magazine Minotaure and the Belgian periodical Documents 34. Her first book, La Sauterelle arthritique (The Arthritic Grasshopper) was published in 1935 with a preface by Paul Éluard and a photograph by Man Ray.

Marianne van Hirtum observed that the surrealists of the time recognised these early writings as a "verit ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 320 ratings · 36 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tvář s lehkým záchvěvem trápení by Gisèle Prassinos, jana Podhorská (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934-1944 by Gisèle Prassinos, Allan Kausch (Illustrator), Bonnie Ruberg (Translator) 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El rostro tocado por la pena 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surrealist Texts (Absurdist Texts & Documents #23) by Gisèle Prassinos, Ellen Nations (Translator), Bruce Hutchinson (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ο φεγγίτης 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Traveler 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1959	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le ciel et la terre se marient it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brelin le frou 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trouver sans chercher it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1976 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le grand repas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars