limbour wrote a number of short stories (collected after his death in two volumes), four novels, a play (first staged in 1954), three opera librettos (only one of which was performed), and poetry. the early stories show the influence of surrealism and 'automatic writing' methods but in the later work, including the novels, limbour developed a magical and distinctive style. he was greatly admired by his contemporaries, including max jacob, jean paulhan, jean cocteau, queneau, and leiris. limbour was appointed a regent of the college de 'pataphysique in 1960, with dubuffet and queneau among his nominators. michel leiris, writing in "atoll" in 1968, described limbour as: ‘a great poet in every heart-beat of what he wrote, but a poet without fanfare or vain display’.