Schehadé, Georges (1910-89). A Lebanese member of the Surrealist movement. Between 1938 and 1972 he published five wistful and whimsical volumes entitled Poésies, plus further collections of poetry, L'Écolier Sultan (1950), Si tu rencontres un ramier (1951), and Le Nageur d'un seul amour (1985). He is better known as a dramatist whose plays transpose to the stage the dreamy, playful qualities of his poetry: see e.g. Monsieur Bob'le (written 1938, performed 1951), La Soirée des proverbes (1954), Histoire de Vasco (1956), and L'Émigré de Brisbane (1965). He also wrote a récit, Rodogune Sinne (1947), a so-called ‘pantomime’, L'Habit fait le prince (1973), based on Gottfried Keller's ‘Kleider machen Leute’, and, for Jacques Baratier, the scenario of the film Goha.
[Keith Aspley]
