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Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, 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: café 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. André 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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- PublisherPrentice-Hall
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0136224806
- ISBN 13 9780136224808
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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Nightwalker. Translated by Frederick Brown.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a touch of soiling. Aragon's surrealist novel was first published in French in 1924 and in it he describes two walks that evoke street life in 1920s Paris and immediately become a wonderland of hallucinatory images, slippery planes, sudden abysses and dissolving facades. Aragon, poets and philosopher, was an important member of the Parisian avant-garde and surrealist movement that flourished in Paris and Berlin and "Nightwalker" marks his most essential work of the period. First Printing of the First English Language Edition. Seller Inventory # 23151
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