Paris Peasant (Paperback)

"Paris Peasant" (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, 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. . . ."

General

Imprint:	Exact Change,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1999
First published:	September 2011
Authors:	Louis Aragon
Translators:	Simon Watson- Taylor
Dimensions:	204 x 153 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	225
ISBN-13:	978-1-878972-10-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	1-878972-10-3
Barcode:	9781878972101

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