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IMpose by a prefect father who had refused to acknowledge his adulterous son, the identify “Aragon” may have ended up serving as a Spanish inn. Half a century for half a century, he certainly brings collectively each a poet, a novelist, a journalist activist every along with his type, doubled by a voracious reader.
It was the literary essayist that the publishers of the “Pleiade” selected to honor at present, however their choice was not, by their very own admission, simple to make, so all these Aragon contaminated. However, this work is a valuable software to attempt to unravel the enigma of this author who preferred to say: “Start by reading me. »»
Two of the major titles of this volume, To explain what I was And I never learned to write … Say how much the test is in autobiography, at home. Reading, for Aragon is to experience the vertigo that any clearly expressed otherness arouses.
But it is also, the closed book, return to oneself to analyze this provisional suspension of being. It is therefore to write in the hope of prolonging this in-between where one was both other and oneself. An exercise in which excels an Aragon capable of making the concept of day and night in turn lose to his interlocutors, as his culture sparkled.
Treat Ronsard de Clown
I take my game It is said to be well: he is a player who challenges us with the chat of the rugs beating the cards of their Bonteau. Aragon’s flow is so powerful that we often remain dumbfounded by its torrential ease. Of all the writers here celebrated, from Stendhal to Rimbaud, it is logically Hugo who will have him the most enthusiastic: in his linguistic orgy, the author of Ninety-three also knew how to make himself a poet, novelist and militant – his contradictions are wonderfully analyzed.
It is well upturn when seeing the young Aragon treat Ronsard de Clown, while celebrating his own genius, in the Treaty of style, It is difficult not to give in to a spell that it seems first to undergo. “Game is a form of thought. There is a moment when it is all the thought, ”he wrote, as if he were planning our objections.
Like a river always able to get out of his bed, Aragon was in turn a symbolist poet, Dadaist then surreal, before rallying with socialist realism. Virulent anti -colonialist, he changed after the war as a “skilled patriot” after praising the gulag, and was able to sit on the central committee of the PCF without claiming to defend writers in disgrace, such as Kundera.
The Rossignol turned to the eel
Capable of celebrating the same year Jdanov, the father of Stalinist aesthetics, and Barrès, the bard of integral nationalism, he thus justified himself before those who believed to have ideological rights on him: nothing prevents love both Jules Verne and Robbe-Grillet. Precious license that the writers of the USSR rarely enjoyed.
Was the nightingale sometimes turned to eel? Few were fairly lively criticism to destabilize this “digital intelligence machine” (Neruda). We was looking for a constant in this virtuoso of self -fiction, for whom to write seemed as easy as to speak?
To uncover
The kangaroo of the day
Answer
He was the primary to imagine his “true lying”,, His tendency to build up masks and mues – he noticed him pursue younger males after forty years singing Elsa. Reading it at present, we expertise the vertigo of a reversible thought that confuses any synthesis. There have been as many truths in Aragon as there have been poets in Pessoa, the Portuguese father of a myriad of heteronyms.
“Literary essays”by Louis Aragon (Gallimard, La “Pléiade”, underneath the path of Olivier Barbarant, 2,064 p., € 80 till October 31).
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