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Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon

 

Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism.

Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern."

Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon

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  • Title: Paris Peasant

    Format: 2nd paperback printing

    Condition: Very good, light edge, spine and corner wear, faint indentation on covers.

    Product dimensions: n/a

    Language: English

    Publishing Info: Picador, London, 1987

    ISBN - 13: 9780330259200

     

    Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, translated by Simon Watson Taylor, completed after consultations with the author. 

    Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern." The book uses the city of Paris as a stage, or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: cafe menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. Andre Breton wrote of this work: "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..."

     

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