Description
Before psychogeography, the Situationists and dream urbanism, there was Paris Peasant, a pioneering Surrealist excavation of the twentieth centurys capital city
Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Changes edition is the first US publication of Simon Watson Taylors authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in formAragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character developmentParis Peasant is, in the authors 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: caf 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 Aragons swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. Andr 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.
Author: Louis Aragon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Exact Change
Published: 09/30/2011
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.12w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781878972101
Language: English
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