Paris Peasant
Aragon, Louis
9781878972101
ISBN 13: 9781878972101
Publication Date: 2008
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"I was seeking a new kind of novel that would break all the traditional rules governing the writing of fiction a novel that the critics would be obliged to approach empty-handed." --Louis Aragon Paris Peasant(1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, a work that helps define the movement itself; yet this is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon self-consciously avoided any recognizable narration or character development--but fiercely lyrical, Paris Peasantis, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern." The book uses the city of Paris as a framework, and Aragon interlaces his text with the city's ephemera: cafe menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments, newspaper clippings, as well as the lives of its citizens. A detailed description of a Parisian passage, nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall, and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. "No one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city --Andre Breton
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