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Title: Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon, Simon W. Taylor ISBN: 1-878972-10-3 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing read!
Comment: Often considered one of the definitive surrealist novels (along with Andre Breton's NADJA), Paris Peasant is an exhilarating read. Aragon takes us through a special guided tour of Paris--not the Paris as we know it with its Eiffel Tower and other famous landmarks, but a Paris of crumbling arcades, dilapidated shopfronts and suburban parks. Aragon imbues the detritus of the city with poetry and magic, and shows us how the surrealist spirit lives in the outmoded structures of civilization. His ode to the Passage de l'Opera, at that time threatened by Baron Haussmann's plans for the redevelopment of the city, is a tacit challenge to the rapaciousness of capitalism and modernization, with its quest for the ever-new and its destruction of the past. Every urbanite will find something to identify with in this marvellous portrait of Paris in the 1920s.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ideal English Edition
Comment: This new edition of a scare work is welcome not
only for the exposure it provides to Aragon and
his work (if it can be called that), but for the
loving manner in which it is produced. From the
covers to the typeface to the translation of
newspaper column margins, editor Damon Krukowski
and designer Naomi Yang, known more for their
musical than literary endevours, have brought
attention to the smallest detail, the kind of
attention that is the substance of the text
itself. The translation, from a 1971 edition,
flows perfectly; just alien enough from standard
English to draw attention to Aragon's linguistic
differences, but not a characature of French
style. It would be hard to imagine a better
English edition of this work.
James L. Wolf
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Title: Nadja by Andre Breton, Richard Howard ISBN: 0802150268 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Last Nights of Paris by Philippe Soupault, William Carlos Williams ISBN: 1878972057 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau, Richard Howard, Roger Shattuck ISBN: 0674403452 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Manifestoes of Surrealism by Andre Breton, Richard Seaver, Helen R. Lane ISBN: 0472061828 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 15 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Mad Love by Andre Breton, Mary Ann Caws ISBN: 0803260725 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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