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Aragon

Louis Aragon · French poet (1897–1982) · 1897–1982

Appears in 53 videos · 67 passages, 24 of them in depth.

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Dominique Pagani often returns to the line from "Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux", "Nothing is ever gained for good by man". He reads it as a paraphrase of Hegel that expresses dialectics better than a lecture: what makes a human being is not given at birth, and no victory settles problems for good123. He comments closely on "Le Paysan de Paris chante", written by the hunted communist hiding in Dieulefit who misses Paris45. He also invokes the preface to "La Diane française" against the discourse that sees nothing but faults in France, and "La Leçon de Ribérac" on the unity of France through language67. He sees Aragon as a rare meeting of great poetry and political commitment8. He points to his return to song after surrealism, his rehabilitation of Hugo, his devotion to Nerval and his late preference for Rimbaud910. Following Clouscard, he notes that the 1970s moved from Aragon to Céline11.

  1. 1#2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Mar 2016 · 15:32
  2. 2Praxis and psyche27 Mar 2023 · 12:35
  3. 3Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning2 Dec 2024 · 29:12
  4. 4Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”5 Aug 2023 · 2:28
  5. 5Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”5 Aug 2023 · 9:38
  6. 6#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 1:39:49
  7. 7Michel Clouscard, the paths of praxis (2/2)8 Dec 2015 · 39:59
  8. 8Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics20 May 2022 · 58:24
  9. 9#2 From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval, on music3 Dec 2020 · 1:44:06
  10. 10Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war17 Feb 2023 · 23:30
  11. 11With Clouscard2 Aug 2016 · 6:51

Summary produced automatically from 66 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

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Louis Aragon (French: ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Series · 5 Aug 2023Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”
  1. 0:00His body of work is immense and abundant: novels, poems, essays, articles, marked by great erudition.
  2. 2:28The Paris Peasant SingsA communist militant hunted by the Gestapo, hidden in Dieulefit, he is cut off from the Paris of demonstrations.
  3. 8:19With him, current events and poetry are held together at once; he is regarded as the greatest French poet of the modern era.
  4. 9:38The Paris Peasant SingsCommented reading: the photographs of Paris, Paris dreaming, the Pont-Neuf like a heart opening.
  5. 18:44The Paris Peasant SingsHe holds the Croix de guerre from 1914-18 and is no dilettante; he has written more of Paris than of himself.
Cycle 11 · 29 Jun 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative
  1. 9:12The Unfinished RomancePoem by an aged Aragon, apparently despairing; he was a soldier in 1914, decorated with the Croix de Guerre.
  2. 13:18The Unfinished RomanceThe poem addresses young people, who will draw nothing from the illusions of their elders.
  3. 17:42There Is No Happy Love"Nothing is ever acquired by man": no victory definitively settles the problems.
  4. 37:16The Unfinished RomanceThe turning point: looking nothingness in the face in order to triumph over it; the chorus takes up the singer's interrupted phrase.

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