Arthur Adamov (1908 - 1970)

Arthur Adamov

Arthur Adamov, born Arthur Adamian, is a French novelist and playwright, translator of Armenian origin.

Adamov was close to the Surrealists and was friends with Artaud and Giacometti. He wrote poetry and published the surrealist magazine "The Gap". In 1938 he had a nervous breakdown. In 1941 he was arrested for his hostile statements against the Vichy government, and was held in a camp in Argeles until the end of the war.

After the war, in a state of extreme depression, he began to write confessional prose and turned to drama.