![]() They reflected the newer novelistic techniques of the day. His next three novels-La Semaine sainte (1958 Holy Week), La Mise à mort (1965, The Moment of Truth), and Blanche ou l’oubli (1967, Blanche, or Forgetfulness), became a veiled autobiography, laced with pleas for the Communist Party. Aragon continued to employ Socialist Realism in another long novel, Les Communistes (6 vol., 1949–51), a bleak chronicle of the party from 1939 to 1940. The four volumes of his long novel series, Le Monde réel (1933–44, The Real World), describe in historical perspective the class struggle of the proletariat toward social revolution. In 1930 Aragon visited the Soviet Union, and in 1933 his political commitment to communism resulted in a break with the Surrealists. In 1927 his search for an ideology led him to the French Communist Party, with which he was identified thereafter, as he came to exercise a continuing authority over its literary and artistic expression. Aragon’s first poems, Feu de joie (1920,Bonfire) and Le Mouvement perpétuel (1925, Perpetual Motion), were followed by a novel, Le Paysan de Paris (1926 The Nightwalker). ![]() Together with Philippe Soupault, he and Breton founded the Surrealist review Littérature (1919). ![]() ![]() Through the Surrealist poet André Breton, Aragon was introduced to avant-garde movements such as Dadaism. ![]()
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