Memory and Politics: Representations of War in the Work of Louis Aragon (French and Francophone Studies) - Hardcover

Kimyongür, Angela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708320880 ISBN 13: 9780708320884

Verlag: University of Wales Press - IPSUK, 2008

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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 oeuvre, the overarching theme of war is one permanent and unchangeable facet of this work―and while many books have been published on Aragon, none go beyond the figure of the Resistance poet to explore the subject of war throughout his career. Memory and Politics does just that, tracing two strands of Aragon’s critique of war: an ideological strand which voices the policies of the Communist Party, and a personal strand which voices memory and loss.

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Angela Kimyongür is a lecturer in French at the University of Hull.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Wales Press - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0708320880
• ISBN 13: 9780708320884
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207
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