Suzanne Blier
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376 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Suzanne Blier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're there for a reason.
Don't bother me while I'm working.
You know, books piled high, books of his own, you know, his own style.
of books from all over the place and i i think that that uh there's no there's no evidence that he had relationships uh with men per se other than the intellectual and the camaraderie and the philosophy and the drinking etc but that that's also a piece of i think what's happening so the final question then just sort of leading on from what you're saying there
I think some women he respected enormously.
I think early on, I mean, Dora Maar and he were...
comrades in arms.
They were working together.
This is the period of the 1930s surrealism.
She really, she transformed his work at that time.
I think his relationship with Gertrude Stein was impressive and powerful and important.
And I think the fact that she was a woman, but also gay and powerful and big and in very different ways and had the money and American.
I think he
He liked women and men, individuals, I'll just remove the gender aspects, but like him who were outsiders.
that were not part of the norm.
Olga was Russian, and I think he did like that outsider nature.
And a number of the men in his life, Apollinaire or Houdet, were also in some ways outside of this very elite Parisian culture.
That offered him a way of seeing the world that was not so strictly defined by, well, this is the academy in France.
These are the standards that if I were a Frenchman, I would have to live up to because he was not going to do that.
He was going to break all of those standards and create a world in which he would be at the center.
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