TITLE

Paris Peasant

IMPRINT

Exact Change

PRICE US

$15.95 CDN $15.95

ISBN

9781878972101 TRADE

FORMAT

Pbk, 6 x 8 in., 228 pgs.

CATALOG

FALL 2011 p. 56   

DISTRIBUTOR

D.A.P.

PUB DATE

9/30/2011

STATUS

Active

STOCK

In stock

Paris Peasant

By Louis Aragon. Translated and with an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor.

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: café 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. André 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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