“I call poetry this reverse side of time, this darkness with wide-open eyes, this passionate domain where I lose myself, this nocturnal sun, this cursed song (…) I call poetry this denial of the day, where words say as well the opposite of what they say is the proclamation of the forbidden, the adventure of meaning or nonsense.
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At 77, Louis Aragon offers us his definition of the
"magical and mad name of poetry",
by bringing together his
Poetic Works
which will be published in fifteen volumes, between 1974 and 1981. A monstrous corpus ranging from
Bonfire
, witness to a time when the impoverished and provocative dandy loudly showed his disgust for the old world, Dada version, in
Adieux
, published in 1981;
and now reissued in pocket format.
Slump
In the meantime, the champion of communism, the one who has been called the "Moscow scout", has moved away from surrealism to put himself at the service of the revolution alone, publishing
Hurrah the Urals
and
Persecuted persecutor
, which contains the famous
Red front
, three years after...
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