Robert Desnos, writer and poet, joined the group working on the magazine Littérature headed by André Breton in 1922. He played a key role in hypnotic sleep-writing and dream narrative experiments conducted by this group, and then actively participated in Surrealist activities from 1924, the year the movement was founded, until 1929, when he was expelled by André Breton when Breton joined forces with the Communist Party. Robert Desnos also wrote about art, music and cinema. A Resistance fighter and anti-fascist, he died of typhus in the Theresienstadt concentration camp one month after it was liberated by the Red Army.