We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the...
Louis Aragon (1897-1982) was a surrealist author, poet of the French Resistance during World War II, and the leading Communist writer in France. Louis Aragon was born in Neuilly on Oct. 3, 1897. He was educated to be a physician. In 1917, while in the...
Louis Aragon, who died in 1982 at the age of eighty-five, was a quintessential twentieth-century French writer, involved in literature, politics, and painting to a degree rivaled only by Jean-Paul Sartre and André Malraux. Lacking Sartre's...
Louis Aragon is a twentieth-century personification of Dada; he is a writer, poet, and critic who deconstructed the literature and politics of France, giving his Dada-shape to French literature and then projecting that voix-et-image (voice-and-image)...
Louis Aragon pronounced [lwi aʁaˈgɔ̃] in French) (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982), French poet and novelist, a long-time political supporter of the communist party and a member of the Académie...
The theory of criticism posited by surrealist Louis Aragon focuses not on reflecting the subject but refracting it. Aragon was interested in giving works a new identity rather than merely reiterating it in his critical texts. Also known as synthetic criticism, this process can...
In the following essay, Walz explores Aragon's depiction of the Paris Opera Passageway in his novel Le Paysan de Paris and the socio-historical role of the Passageway in Parisian culture.
