He was not inclined towards rupture. Struggles, however severe they were, did not bring him down, nor did they change his tone. The songs of his twilight have the same familiar turn as the poems of his beginnings.″ In 1965, thanks to Arlette's efforts, Gallimard published an augmented but incomplete Grabinoulor. A banner did not hesitate to present it as "a classic of Surrealism," to the surprise, and even anger, of Albert-Birot, who had never been part of the group, signed any manifesto, or participated in any of the demonstrations. In 1966, he declared that he was not "attracted to the arcana and the fantastic of Surrealism, to its Freudian visions." The play, to which the author put a final point in 1963—the only point in all of his work—is only published in its complete form of the Six Books of Grabinoulor in 1991 by Jean-Michel Place. Pierre Albert-Birot died on July 27, 1967. On his death notice, Arlette included a verse from The Black Panther: "Those who love you see you beautiful, vertical, all war and fire and colors, biting with full teeth, biting into the solar system." Poetry Albert-Birot wrote several books of poetry, including: ("Thirty-one Pocket Poems"), 1917 ("Everyday Poems"), 1919 , 1920 ("Poems to the Other Me"), 1927 , 1938 ("The Black Panther"), 1938 ("Natural Amusements"), 1945 ("110 drops of poetry", 1952 His poetry is inseparable from his early theatrical work: lyric, funny and eminently modern. Prose His novel Grabinoulor appeared in 1919. Bernard Jourdan definitively established that the name of the hero of this stream of consciousness, from which all punctuation is banned, is a near-anagram of "We Albert-Birot"; Grabinoulour, a very modern man, has a host of adventures, some everyday, others fantastic, with nods to the heroes of Rabelais' and Lewis Caroll's works, but also, and above all, to the supermen of modern mythology, from Fantômas to Tarzan, from Arsène Lupin to science fiction heroes traveling through the space and time. Pierre Albert-Birot was a very singular man, a fringe poet who fascinated later generations with fanciful novels such as the 1934 ("employee"). He also wrote literary translations of Homer, Eschylus and Virgil, translations of medieval poets into Modern French, and studies of prosody. Theater In 1917, Albert-Birot directed the first performance of by Guillaume Apollinaire, a friend who had also been a contributor to SIC''. He went on to write numerous plays of