The Die Is Cast - Robert Desnos - Paperback - en Book

A Startlingly Contemporary Portrait Of Drug Addiction In Prewar Paris Published In 1943 (just A Year Before Its Author Was Arrested By The Gestapo For His Resistance Activities), The Die Is Cast Was A Departure For Robert Desnos: A Shift From His Earlier, Frenetic Surrealist Prose To A Social Realism That Borrowed As Much From His Life Experience As His Career As A Journalist. Drawing On His Own Use Of Drugs In The 1920s And His Doomed Relationship With The Chanteuse Yvonne George, Desnos Here Portrays A Band Of Opium, Cocaine And Heroin Users From All Walks Of Life In Paris. It Is A Startlingly Contemporary Portrayal Of Overdoses, Arrests, Suicides And The Flattened Solitude Of The Addict, Yet Published In Occupied Paris, Years Before Junkie Literature Established Itself With The Beat Generation.