Memory and Politics: Representations of War in the Work of Louis Aragon

by Angela Kimyongur and Angela Kimyongür

On the one hand, Louis Aragon (1897-1982) was iconoclastic: a founding member of the Surrealist movement, the son of a man who was masqueraded as his godfather for the first nineteen years of his life, and a bisexual who came out following the death of his wife. On the other hand, like so many other writers who as young men witnessed the slaughter of World War I at close quarters, Aragon was profoundly marked by the experience. Within his multifaceted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708320880
• ISBN13: 9780708320884
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"