Aragon, Louis (1897–1982)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Svendsen
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Andre Breton ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Army Medical ◽  
Louis Aragon ◽  
André Breton ◽  
Philippe Soupault ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
French Author ◽  
French Communist Party

French author Louis Aragon was a member of the surrealist movement until he split with André Breton and began to devote more of his energy to the Communist Party. He is best known for his love poetry and his novel, Paris Peasant. Educated as a physician, Aragon joined the army medical corps and met André Breton there. The two joined Dada in 1919 and became founding members of the surrealist movement along with Philippe Soupault in 1924. Aragon’s first two poetry collections were highly surrealist in style, but he was criticized by the group after he published Le Paysan de Paris [Paris Peasant], a novel and dialectical meditation on areas of Paris about to be destroyed by modernization. This book deeply influenced the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Soon after he joined the French Communist Party in 1927, Aragon was ejected from the surrealist movement.

Homage to Robert Aron, 1898—1975

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Annabelle Henkin Melzer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
World War ◽  
Alfred Jarry ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Louis Aragon ◽  
Tristan Tzara ◽  
Philippe Soupault ◽  
Young Wife ◽  
French Communist Party

I went to see Robert Aron in the summer of 1972. He was then seventy-four years old, a tall, striking man in an apartment of stuffed furniture overrun by books. In all my meetings that summer with former surrealists, people who had made avant-garde theatre in Paris in the 1920s, there was always a sense of trembling at reaching out to touch cobwebbed memories. Forty-five years had passed since the events we talked about. Tristan Tzara, recalled by Gide as a charming man with a young wife who was ‘even more charming’, had since fought with the French Resistance during World War II and later joined the Communist Party. André Breton, when he died in 1966, was accompanied to his grave by ‘waves of young men and young girls often in couples, with arms entwined’. They had come from all over France to pay him tribute. Philippe Soupault is a respected editor, critic and radio commentator, Louis Aragon is at the forefront of the French Communist Party and dislikes talking about his days as a Surrealist, Roger Vitrac is an acknowledged and produced playwright while Artaud is a cult figure. There are moments when in looking back, the whole Dada-Surrealist performance world looks like some great Dada swindle perpetrated on the only too fallible researcher and critic. Robert Aron does nothing to dispel this feeling. The man who sent a telegram to Breton warning him that he would stop at no measures to keep the fervent Surrealist claque from disturbing the performance of Strindberg's A Dream Play at the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, was elected a member of the French Academy before his death.

scholarly journals Uso y significado de los objetos en la literatura francesa surrealista

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Luengo López
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Louis Aragon ◽  
André Breton ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Level ◽  
The Way

El uso que en los textos surrealistas se le da a los objetos, constituye una de las bases de comunicación del pensamiento onírico de esta corriente artística, cuyo significante se reconoce en el particular modo de ver el mundo que tuvieron algunos escritores franceses. Centrándonos en la obra de André Breton y Louis Aragon se abordará este fenómeno a través del análisis del proceso de cristalización del objeto psíquico en el plano físico del texto escrito, no solo como elemento constituyente de la narración, sino también como objeto en sí al concebirse como poema-objeto o identificarse con el propio surrealismo.The use of objects in surrealist texts is one of the bases for communicating oneiric thought in this artistic movement, the meaning of which is recognised in the particular way that some French writers had of seeing the world. Focusing on the work of André Breton and Louis Aragon, this phenomenon is approached through an analysis of the process in which the psychological object is crystallised in the physical level of the written text, not only as an component of the narrative, but also as an object in its own right, in the way it is conceived as a poem-object or identified with surrealism itself.

scholarly journals Mitologia moderna e iluminação profana: um breve passeio pelos caminhos do surrealismo

Em Tese ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Lucas Toledo de Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Andre Breton ◽  
Louis Aragon ◽  
André Breton

Esse artigo pretende investigar as relações entre mito e literatura trazidas pelo movimento surrealista, bem como o conceito de iluminação profana, oriundo dos estudos de Walter Benjamin a respeito dessa vanguarda. Para isso pretende-se abordar algumas criações elaboradas por importantes nomes do surrealismo, como é o caso de André Breton e Louis Aragon, por meio de uma leitura que tratará da possibilidade da criação de uma mitologia moderna e da relação disso com a ideia de iluminação profana, em obras como Nadja e Camponês de Paris, ambas de 1928, além disso, busca-se tratar do modo como o uso dos mitos, ressignificados na modernidade, por meio da aproximação entre arte e vida, permitiria um novo olhar do homem para o seu tempo e para o mundo que o rodeava, o que poderia, em última instância, revelar caminhos que levariam a transformação e ao reencantamento da realidade.  

scholarly journals S’il vous plaît : le théâtre de boulevard au filtre de l’image dialectique

2017 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton ◽  
Philippe Soupault

En 1920, André Breton et Philippe Soupault composent ensemble S’il vous plaît, une comédie calquée sur les codes du théâtre de boulevard. Cette pièce offre l’occasion de comprendre les mécanismes et les enjeux à l’oeuvre dans la réécriture d’un genre théâtral associé au goût bourgeois, et ce pendant la première phase d’application au théâtre des procédés surréalistes alors en élaboration. À travers l’analyse de la pièce et de ses variantes, cet article tâche de mettre en lumière les liens qui unissent théâtre et surréalisme, et les limites de ces liens.

Nadja: um diálogo entre a psicanálise e o surrealismo

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Ramaiana Freire Cardinali ◽  
Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton

Este artigo traz uma leitura interdisciplinar de Nadja, romance escrito por André Breton em 1928, a partir das concepções de realidade propostas pelos surrealistas e pela psicanálise. No surrealismo, através da critica ao realismo, surge o conceito de surreal, com o qual artistas passaram a se exprimir em produções artísticas e em uma conduta particular de vida no pós-guerra. Na psicanálise, Freud foi levado a superar a dicotomia entre interno/externo, assim como entre normal/patológico, implicando, com isso, uma nova concepção de realidade, que posteriormente foi reformulada por Lacan sob o conceito de real. Esta leitura traz como decorrência a denúncia ao conformismo e a superação das falsas dicotomias, ensejando, tanto com a psicanálise quanto com o surrealismo, uma transformação na práxis do sujeito.

Poems of Andre Breton, a Bilingual Anthology

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Eric H. Deudon ◽  
Andre Breton ◽  
Jean-Pierre Cauvin ◽  
Mary Ann Caws
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton

Andre Breton: Magus of Surrealism

1974 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
K. R. Aspley ◽  
Anna Balakian
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton
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