Title: Paris Peasant
Format: 2nd paperback printing
Condition: Very good, light edge, spine and corner wear, faint indentation on covers.
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Language: English
Publishing Info: Picador, London, 1987
ISBN - 13: 9780330259200
Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, translated by Simon Watson Taylor, 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: cafe 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. Andre 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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