Poet and novelist, a founder of Surrealism with André Breton — the two of them wrote the homage to Musidora, Le Trésor des Jésuites, in 1929 — and later one of the movement's most prominent defectors to Communism.
How Louis appears in its pages: The French Surrealist poet and novelist (1897–1982), another co-founder of the movement with Breton. Aragon's 1926 book Le Paysan de Paris — with its own Paris walks and attentiveness to the marvellous in ordinary streets — is the closest precedent for the method Nadja uses.
Partner of · 1926–1928
Cunard and the Surrealist poet Louis Aragon were together for about two years and travelled a good deal. It ended in Venice in 1928, on the holiday during which Cunard first heard Henry Crowder play. Several accounts add that Aragon attempted suicide there; that is reported rather than established, and is attributed rather than asserted here.
Collaborated with · 1938
Aragon wrote the preface for Espagne au cœur, the French edition of Neruda's Spanish Civil War poems España en el corazón, published in Paris in July 1938. The two were fellow Communist poets working the same Paris campaign for the Spanish Republic; the preface is the documented instance.
Supported by · 1920–1924
Between roughly 1920 and 1924 Doucet paid Louis Aragon, André Breton and Pierre Reverdy for library work, an arrangement that gave three young poets an income while they were writing the first Surrealist texts.
With André Breton, Aragon took the black-clad Irma Vep as a Surrealist muse and wrote her into their play Le Trésor des Jésuites (1929). The schoolboys who found the marvelous in a Gaumont serial built a movement partly on its images.
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With André Breton, Aragon took the black-clad Irma Vep as a Surrealist muse and wrote her into their play Le Trésor des Jésuites (1929). The schoolboys who found the marvelous in a Gaumont serial built a movement partly on its images.
Partner of · 1926–1928
Cunard and the Surrealist poet Louis Aragon were together for about two years and travelled a good deal. It ended in Venice in 1928, on the holiday during which Cunard first heard Henry Crowder play. Several accounts add that Aragon attempted suicide there; that is reported rather than established, and is attributed rather than asserted here.
Collaborated with · 1938
Aragon wrote the preface for Espagne au cœur, the French edition of Neruda's Spanish Civil War poems España en el corazón, published in Paris in July 1938. The two were fellow Communist poets working the same Paris campaign for the Spanish Republic; the preface is the documented instance.
Supported by · 1920–1924
Between roughly 1920 and 1924 Doucet paid Louis Aragon, André Breton and Pierre Reverdy for library work, an arrangement that gave three young poets an income while they were writing the first Surrealist texts.
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