"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. . . ."
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