Louis Aragon
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Louis Aragon (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 Goncourt.
Life
Aragon was born and died in Paris.Having been involved in Dada from 1919 to 1924, he became a founding member of Surrealism in 1924 with André Breton and Philippe Soupault. Aragon joined the French Communist Party with several other surrealists. He would remain a member for the rest of his life, writing several political poems including one to Maurice Thorez, however he was also critical of the USSR, particularly during the 1950s.
In 1939 he married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet (born 1896), the sister-in-law of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
During the World War II German occupation of France he wrote for the underground press Les Éditions de Minuit.
One noted Aragon poem is "Red Poster," in which he honoured foreigners who died while fighting to free France. This was done in response to the Nazi propaganda campaign named Red Poster, which aimed at convincing the French people that the resistance movement was composed of foreigners, mainly Jewish, who served the interests of Britain and the Soviet Union.
After the death of his wife on June 16, 1970, Aragon revealed his bisexuality.
Bibliography
Novels and Short Stories
- Anicet ou le Panorama (1921)
- Les Aventures de Télémaque (1922)
- Le Libertinage (1924)
- Le Paysan de Paris (1926)
- Le Con d'Irène (1927, published under the pseudonym Albert de Routisie)
- Les Cloches de Bâle ("Le Monde réel", 1934)
- Les Beaux Quartiers ("Le Monde réel", 1936, Renaudot Prize winner)
- Les Voyageurs de l'Impériale ("Le Monde réel", 1942)
- Aurélien ("Le Monde réel", 1944)
- Servitude et Grandeur des Français. Scènes des années terribles (1945)
- Les Communistes (6 volumes, 1949-1951 et 1966-1967 - "Le Monde réel")
- La Semaine Sainte (1958)
- La Mise à mort (1965)
- Blanche ou l'oubli (1967)
- Henri Matisse, roman (1971)
- Théâtre/Roman (1974)
- Le Mentir-vrai (1980)
- La Défense de l'infini (1986)
- Les Aventures de Jean-Foutre La Bite (1986)
Poetry
- Le Musée Grévin, published under the pseudonym François la Colère
- La rose et le réséda
- Feu de joie, 1919
- Le Mouvement perpétuel, 1926
- La Grande Gaîté, 1929
- Persécuté persécuteur, 1930-1931
- Hourra l'Oural, 1934
- ''Le Crève-Cœur, 1941
- Cantique à Elsa, 1942
- Les Yeux d'Elsa, 1942
- Brocéliande, 1942
- Le Musée Grevin, 1943
- La Diane française, 1945
- En étrange pays dans mon pays lui-même, 1945
- Le Nouveau Crève-Cœur, 1948
- Le Roman inachevé, 1956
- Elsa, 1959
- Les Poètes, 1960
- Le Fou d'Elsa, 1963
- Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa, 1964
- Les Chambres, poème du temps qui ne passe pas, 1969
Essays
- Une vague de rêves, 1924
- Traité du style, 1928
- Pour un réalisme socialiste, 1935
Links
- [J'arrive où je suis étranger] poem with music, listenable on-line.
Source
- Ivry, Benjamin (1996). Francis Poulenc, 20th-Century Composers series. Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 071483503X.
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