Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon
A surreal, lyrical sequence of prose walks in which a flâneur treats the city as a living, dreamlike landscape: through passages, shop windows, canals, industrial ruins and chance encounters the narrator blends observation, memory, myth and political reflection to expose the uncanny beneath everyday Parisian life. Fragmentary, collage-like chapters turn mannequins, street corners and maps into catalysts for meditations on modernity, desire, language and history, transforming ordinary detail into surprising, often disorienting revelations about the city's past and present.
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- Published
- 1926
- Nationality
- French
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- Original Language
- French
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- Le Paysan de Paris
- Paris Peasant
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