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Louis Aragon

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Also known as Louis Andrieux, Albert de Routisie, Arnaud de Saint Romain, François la Colère, Aragon, François La Colère, Témoin des martyrs

French poet (1897–1982)

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Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a French physician writer, journalist, politician, and poet. Born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, he was educated at Lycée Carnot. Aragon was a member of the French Communist Party and worked for L'Humanité, Ce soir, and Les Lettres françaises. He participated in both World War I and World War II. His notable works include *Anicet ou le panorama, roman*, *Elsa*, and *Avez-vous lu Victor Hugo?*.

Aragon received the Prix Renaudot, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and the Lenin Peace Prize. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His spouse was Elsa Triolet, and his father was Louis Andrieux. Aragon died in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1897
Died
1982
Works
276

Top works

  • Pasado compuesto
  • Los colages
  • Anicet ou le panorama, roman
  • Elsa
  • Avez-vous lu Victor Hugo?

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Film & TV

Writing · Paris, France

Louis Aragon was a French poet. He co-founded, with André Breton and Philippe Soupault, the surrealistic magazine Littérature.

Known for

  • Video 501978
  • Elsa the Rose — Self1966
  • Langlois-Keaton à Paris — Self1962
  • Horizons... — Narrator1953
  • Defensa de Madrid (Segunda parte)1937
  • The Bearded Heart — Self - Surrealist Poet1930

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Australia
Active from
1897
Active to
1982
progressive rock

Discography

Official siteDiscogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
842
Total plays
5,354

Tags

poetryfrenchspoken wordeuropeanpoesie

Aragon's poetry is diverse and varied. He favoured equally poetic prose and fixed-form verse, to which he brought a renewed sensibility. After a very free early period, marked by surrealism and its subversive language, Aragon returned to more classical forms (measured verse; rhyme, even). He felt that this was more in keeping with the national emergency during World War II. After the war, the political side of his poetry gave way more and more to lyricism for its own sake. <a href="https://www.l

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,638x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,871x

  3. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

    · 1988 · cited 15,809x

  4. <i>WinGX</i>suite for small-molecule single-crystal crystallography

    · 1999 · cited 15,221x

  5. The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary

    · 2016 · cited 13,376x

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Louis Aragon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Two poems by Louis Aragon : 1. C; 2. Fetes galantes/([Text:] Aragon - [Music:] Poulenc)

Two poems by Louis Aragon : 1. C; 2. Fetes galantes/([Text:] Aragon - [Music:] Poulenc)

Estatuto de Autonomía para Aragón

Estatuto de Autonomía para Aragón

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Encyclopedic overview

Louis Aragon ( French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Early life (1897–1939)

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