Louis Aragon Summary

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... Read more

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 th... Read more

Critical Essay by Philip Rahv When Louis Aragon, one of the founding fathers of dada and surrealism, turned to the proletariat for regeneration, he did so with that splendid violence characteristic o... Read more

Critical Essay by Annabelle Henkin Melzer L'Armoire à glace un beau soir is a play which emerged as the door closed on dada and that to surrealism opened. It displays the impulse to bre... Read more

Critical Essay by Malcolm Cowley [It was surprising to learn that Aragon] had written a social and collective novel, "The Bells of Basel." For the social novelist has to be not only the... Read more

Critical Essay by Gilbert Chase ["Residential Quarter"] is very uneven in quality. Aragon has much talent: his power of description is remarkable, his virtuosity brilliant, his style ne... Read more

Critical Essay by Olivia Manning Holy Week deals, in some 270,000 words, with one of the most stirring episodes in French history…. And what does M. Aragon make of it? One of the dullest chron... Read more

Critical Essay by M. Adereth Aragon believes that the task of literature is to explain the whole personality of man, and he feels that both history and love are its constituting factors. It is both s... Read more

In the following essay, Balakian argues that Aragon's first published prose work, Anicet, cemented his importance to twentieth-century art and literature by “igniting” the “... Read more

In the following essay, Collier discusses the urban settings in works by André Breton and Aragon. In French poetry of the second half of the nineteenth century urban motifs were easily recog... Read more

In the following essay, Kimyongür presents an overview of Aragon's sociopolitical views in his novel cycle Le Monde réel. Louis Aragon owes his popular reputation to his poetry... Read more